Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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A piece of music becomes popular...!
On January 25, 1858, the German Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia...
...and the British Princess Royal, Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland...
... in the chapel of St. James' Palace in London. On the left behind the priest is the mother of the bride, Queen Victoria, next to her the father of the groom, King Wilhelm I of Prussia...:
For the first time, the so-called "Wedding March" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...
...played by the German composer Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847), who - to this day! - gained great popularity.
Many couples follow the example of the later German imperial couple at their wedding ceremony - especially in the USA, the march is an integral part of a "real" wedding ceremony. The wedding march is still often played in this country.
Although the composer...
...was brought up as a Christian himself and was baptized as a Protestant (and his originally Jewish parents also converted to Christianity) the wedding march of "the Jew Menselssohn" was of course forbidden in Germany during the Nazi era...!
And that's it - there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't know the "Wedding March"...:
On January 25, 1858, the German Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia...
...and the British Princess Royal, Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland...
... in the chapel of St. James' Palace in London. On the left behind the priest is the mother of the bride, Queen Victoria, next to her the father of the groom, King Wilhelm I of Prussia...:
For the first time, the so-called "Wedding March" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...
...played by the German composer Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847), who - to this day! - gained great popularity.
Many couples follow the example of the later German imperial couple at their wedding ceremony - especially in the USA, the march is an integral part of a "real" wedding ceremony. The wedding march is still often played in this country.
Although the composer...
...was brought up as a Christian himself and was baptized as a Protestant (and his originally Jewish parents also converted to Christianity) the wedding march of "the Jew Menselssohn" was of course forbidden in Germany during the Nazi era...!
And that's it - there shouldn't be anyone who doesn't know the "Wedding March"...:
