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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.
A Salvi double-action concert harp. Salvi is one of the most important manufacturers of high-quality harps. [1] About 90 employees make about 2,000 harps a year from spruce and maple wood, about half of which are concert (double action) harps, and the remaining lever and electroacoustic harps.
The association organised monthly harp sessions in Dublin (at the Piper's Club, Henrietta Street), managed harp festivals and summer schools and established weekly or biweekly harp schools. From 1986 to 1994, Harbison held the position of Curator of Music at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , where she organised an annual calendar of events ...
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches , generally being played on a church pipe organ .
Victor Salvi was born into an Italian family and was the youngest child of Rodolfo Salvi and Apollonia Paoliello. Rodolfo was himself a musician and an instrument maker from Venice, who moved to the small Southern village of Viggiano, Basilicata, land of travelling musicians who brought their music and traditions all over the world, as well as known for the construction of harps.
Conflict (in Pathfinder for the Harp (Peer-Southern Music, 1951) Elyze (1952) Second Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (1953-1961) (Lyra, 1966) (also known as Symphonic Suite—dialog for harp and orchestra) Chanson dans la Nuit second harp part (G. Schirmer, 1955) Rumba and Tango (Suite of Eight Dances) second harp parts (G. Schirmer, 1955)
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.
In 1836 Alvars became first harp at the Vienna Opera. [1] His 1838 Fantasia, op. 35, is dedicated to Sigismond Thalberg, who is said to have been inspired by Alvars's playing to develop his own three-hand effect piano technique. [2] Alvars's tour of the Near East in the period 1838 to 1842 resulted in his suite Voyage d'un harpiste en l' Orient ...