The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn was greatly loved by our generation and several before us. It is derived from his incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which premiered in 1842; although he wrote the overture in 1826 when only 17. It is still a magical, wondrous piece of music, popularized as a recessional at weddings when it was chosen by Queen Victoria’s daughter Vicky for her marriage to Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia.
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