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154 years ago Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Victoria, used for her wedding Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”. It became popular then.
Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches, generally being played on a church pipe organ… (more)
Listen to the masterpiece conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner (the march begins @33:51):
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