Wedding March

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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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. The popularity of these selections was greatly increased when they were used for the wedding of Princess Victoria.

While their musical works are often paired today, Mendelssohn, a strict Lutheran of Jewish decent, was the target of Wagner's anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik.^[1]

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