Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, 1839. Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, Op. 61, for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Mendelssohn was by then the music director of the King's Academy of the Arts and of the ...
Bridal Chorus. 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. In English-speaking countries, it is generally known as " Here Comes the Bride " or ...
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy[n 1](3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn,[n 2]was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romanticperiod. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music.
Songs Without Words. Songs Without Words ( Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano works by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn written between 1829 and 1845. His sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 55-minute studio album containing the overture and almost all of the incidental music that Felix Mendelssohn wrote to accompany William Shakespeare 's play of the same name. It is performed by Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction ...
The Hebrides ( / ˈhɛbrɪdiːz /; German: Die Hebriden) is a concert overture that was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as Mendelssohn's Op. 26. Some consider it an early tone poem. [ 1][ 2]
– Mendelssohn’s Funeral March. Queen Victoria is said to have described German composer Mendelssohn, one of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period, as both “the greatest ...