Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 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, written in 1842
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 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, written in 1842
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The famous Wedding March is not actually played in A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is commonly associated with weddings due to its use in Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for the play.
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Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream
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Richard Wagner, the music is from "A Midsummer Night's
Dream".
The usual recessional used at weddings is from "Lohengrin" and
was written by Felix Mendelssohn.
It's the other way round. Wagner wrote the music known as 'Here
comes the bride' and Mendelssohn's Wedding March is from his
incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Not the way Shakespeare wrote it, but Felix Mendelssohn wrote
some absolutely terrific incidental music to accompany the play,
including an overture and a wedding march which I guarantee you
have heard before. Mendelssohn's music features prominently in both
the 1935 and 1999 movies and the overture can be heard at the
related link.