The controversial German composer, conductor and music theorist Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is mainly known for his dramatic operas. The first wedding march in this edition is from the opera Lohengrin, which Wagner composed in 1848. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) was a versatile German composer of the early Romantic period. He was considered the child prodigy after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The second wedding march here is from Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the overture to which he had already written by the time he was seventeen, but which was only completed in 1842.
