5066 - Wedding March from Midsummer Night's Dream

Felix Mendelssohn

arranged for brass quintet by Roger Harvey

Difficulty: Medium

Price: £20.00

Programme note:

Programme note:
The perennially popular set of incidental pieces for Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' were written in 1843 to a commission from Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, the Overture having been written 17 years earlier under the inspiration of a performance that Felix and his sister had seen in Berlin. He was 17 at the time and the maturity of this early work is astounding. The incidental music consisted of 13 numbers: entr'actes, dances and songs. The Wedding March, a Finale to the main events has become an essential part of wedding ceremonies throughout the world.

Performance note:
Play with joyfulness but without over-playing the loud dynamics.