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The march from Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell. The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini. The second movement of Ferdinand Ries's Symphony No. 1: Marche funebre. The fifth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15: Funeral march: Adagio molto.
The march was originally written as a piano piece in A minor; Grieg also produced transcriptions of it for brass choir and wind band, in B ♭ minor. Grieg valued the work greatly, bringing it along on all of his travels. In one letter he made it clear that he wished the piece to be played at his own funeral, "as best as possible."
English: March included in "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" (1695) by Henry Purcell. Composed for 4 slide trumpets; adapted for 3 trumpets and 1 valve trombone and later 3 euphoniums and 1 tuba, accompanied by a tupan and a subbass drum.
– Beethoven’s Funeral March No 1. The stately, mournful piece was played at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April 2021, as well as the procession to the lying in state of the Queen Mother ...
Siegfried's Funeral March; Il Silenzio (song) Slonimsky's Earbox; Sonata for Violin and Cello (Ravel) Song for Athene; String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich) String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich) Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)
The Prelude Op. 28, No. 20, in C minor by Frédéric Chopin has been dubbed the "Funeral March" by Hans von Bülow but is commonly known as the "Chord Prelude" due to its slow progression of quarter note chords. [1] It was written between 1831 and 1839. [2] The prelude was originally written in two sections of four measures, ending at m. 9.
Lt Col Jones said the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the Queen’s first prime minister, had also featured music by those composers, adding: “And those are the marches that are going to be ...
Sousa composed this funeral march and dedicated it to President James A. Garfield, upon his death. The dirge was played by the Marine Band as the president's body was received at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., as well at Garfield's funeral in Cleveland, Ohio. It would be repeated at Sousa's own funeral half a century later.