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Artist: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Year: 1842
From Ein Sommernachtstraum (op. 61 nr. 9), based upon Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Played during the weddings of Theseus with Hippolyte, Demetrius with Helena and Lysander with Hermia. See also Trumpet Voluntary in D Major.
Covers:
Samuel Reay [the organist of St. Peter's Church in Tiverton (Devon) at the wedding of Dorothy Carew with Tom Daniel; the piece became irreversibly popular in 1859 when Princess Royal Victoria chose it for her wedding with Prussian Prince Frederick William]
Franz Liszt [transcription for piano]
Vladimir Horowitz [transcription of Liszt's transcription]
Not to be confused with Treulich gefuhrt, also known as Braudlied and better known as Here Comes The Bride from Richard Wagner's opera Löhengrin (1850) and which also thanks its popularity to Princess Royal Victoria, who ordered the organist of St. Paul's to play it while she walked down the aisle to the altar to become Prussian Prince Frederick William's bride in 1859. Two hits for the price of one.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium