Wedding march
March · in C major
Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
C major
Key
March
Form
Allegro vivace
Tempo
Score
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Themes & character
A Midsummer Night's Dream·Most performed wedding music·Royal wedding fame·Triumphant fanfare
At a glance
- Key
- C major
- Tempo / character
- Allegro vivace
- Form
- March
About the piece
Mendelssohn's Wedding March comes from his incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, composed in 1842, seventeen years after he had written the play's famous overture as a teenager. It accompanies the marriage of the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania.
It became the world's best known wedding recessional after being played at the 1858 wedding of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, to Prince Frederick of Prussia, a choice that set a fashion still followed today.
The composer
Felix Mendelssohn
1809–1847
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic era. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the String Octet, the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian and Scottish Symphonies, the oratorios St. Paul and Elijah, the Hebrides Overture, the mature Violin Concerto, and the melody used in the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.
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