Mendelssohn & Wagner: Wedding Marches

£12.00 – £14.00

Wagner’s ‘Bridal Chorus’ and Mendelssohn’s ‘Wedding March’ are both very popular music choices for the bride’s entrance. Here arranged for wind quintet.

  • Instruments : Fl. Ob. Cl.(in Bb) Hn. Bsn.
  • Difficulty : B – approx. ABRSM Grade 4
  • Duration : 1’30” (Mendelssohn) & 1’15” (Wagner)
  • ISMN : 979-0-708177-07-4
  • Portus Press reference : PPQ111
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Description

The Bridal Chorus  (Treulich geführt) is from the 1850 opera Lohengrin  by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883).  The chorus is sung in the opera by the women of the wedding party after the ceremony, as they accompany the heroine Elsa to her bridal chamber.  In English-speaking countries it is often known as Here Comes the Bride  or Wedding March.

Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March  is one of the best known movements from his suite of incidental music to Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream  (1842).

Both Wagner’s and Mendelssohn’s marches were made popular following their use in 1858 at the wedding ceremony of Victoria, The Princess Royal (daughter of Queen Victoria) and Prince Frederick William of Prussia.

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