Wedding March

Prince Albert plays the organ in Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria and Mendelssohn look on. 1842

Friday, 11 September 2020
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opus 61 (1842)

Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, 2013

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Siesta Time, 2.30 p.m.- 3 p.m.

Western Classical Music

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The Wedding March in C major is one of the most famous compositions by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. It was written a few years before he passed on. It served as incidental music to a concert overture - Opus 21 - he composed when he was 17. The overture was incorporated into Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream – which Mendelssohn read in German translations - and was first heard in 1843. 

The composition became popular when it was used at the wedding of Princess Victoria to King Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1858. The march is very popular in contemporary Catholic weddings though it was initially frowned upon owing to the pagan references in the play for which it was composed.

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