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The "Bridal Chorus" (German: "Treulich geführt") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world.
It is frequently teamed with the "Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, [1] or with Jeremiah Clarke's "Prince of Denmark's March", [2] both of which are often played for the entry of the bride.
The overtures and certain orchestral passages from Wagner's middle- and late-stage operas are commonly played as concert pieces. For most of these, Wagner wrote or rewrote short passages to ensure musical coherence. The "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin is frequently played as the bride's processional wedding march in English-speaking countries. [195]
The exiting of the bridal party is also called the wedding recessional. At the end of the service, in Western traditions, the bride and groom march back up the aisle to a lively recessional tune, a popular one being Felix Mendelssohn 's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1842). [ 6 ]
In 1983 the Wagner scholar John Deathridge, in an article in The Musical Times, outlined the need for a reliable catalogue. [12] Two years later, in conjunction with Martin Gech and Egon Voss, he produced Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, described by fellow-scholar Michael Saffle as "perhaps the single finest and most useful of all Wagner reference works."
August 28 (anniversary of Goethe's birth) – Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin (including the Bridal Chorus) premières under the direction of Franz Liszt at the Staatskapelle Weimar. Hans von Bülow attends and makes the decision to give up law and pursue music. His mother is convinced by two letters she receives from Liszt and Wagner.
Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV): Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen ("Catalogue of Wagner's Works: Catalogue of Musical Compositions by Richard Wagner and Their Sources"). Mainz, London, & New York: Schott Musik International.