Wedding march
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A wedding march is a piece of music played during a wedding, usually during the entrance of the bride (processional) or the departure of the married couple at the end (recessional).
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Famous wedding marches
The traditional processional at Western weddings is the Bridal Chorus from Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, while a traditional recessional is the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
While their musical works are often paired, the composers themselves were enemies; Mendelssohn, a Jewish composer, was a target of Wagner's anti-Semitic essay "Das Judenthum in der Musik".
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See also
- Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D (Pachelbel's canon), which, although not a march, is a popular piece of music for weddings.de:Hochzeitsmarsch