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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 ...
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 " Wedding March ...
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.
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]
Wedding music. A Jewish wedding procession, 1724, from the book Juedisches Ceremoniel. Music is often played at wedding celebrations, including during the ceremony and at festivities before or after the event. The music can be performed live by instrumentalists or vocalists or may use pre-recorded songs, depending on the format of the event ...
History. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Balanchine's first completely original full-length ballet, premiered at New York City Ballet on 17 January 1962, [1] [2] with Edward Villella in the role of Oberon, Melissa Hayden in the role of Titania, and Arthur Mitchell in the role of Puck. They were joined by Francisco Moncion in the role of Theseus ...
– 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 ...