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Franz Liszt wrote a virtuoso transcription of the "Wedding March and Dance of the Elves" (S. 410) in 1849–50. [4] Based on Liszt's transcription, Vladimir Horowitz then transcribed the "Wedding March" into a virtuoso showpiece for piano and played it as an encore at his concerts.
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.
The intermezzo between acts 4 and 5 is the famous "Wedding March", probably the most popular single piece of music composed by Mendelssohn, and one of the most ubiquitous pieces of music ever written. Act 5 contains more music than any other, to accompany the wedding feast.
Mendelssohn also wrote in 1839 an overture to Ruy Blas, commissioned for a charity performance of Victor Hugo's drama (which the composer hated). [139] His incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op. 61), including the well-known "Wedding March", was written in 1843, seventeen years after the Overture. [140]
The Wedding March may refer to: "Wedding March" (Mendelssohn), an 1842 composition by Felix Mendelssohn from his incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Wedding March, an 1873 play by W. S. Gilbert, later adapted as the comic opera Haste to the Wedding; The Wedding March, an Italian silent film directed by Carmine Gallone
Music can be used to announce the arrival of the participants of the wedding (such as a bride's processional), and in many western cultures, this takes the form of a wedding march. For more than a century, the Bridal Chorus from Wagner's Lohengrin (1850), often called "Here Comes The Bride", has been the most popular processional, and is ...
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Popular as wedding music, [6] [7] [8] the march was played during the wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles at St Paul's Cathedral in 1981 [6] and during the wedding of Prince Joachim of Denmark and Alexandra Manley in 1995.