Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March

[rondelidemagnesio]

I always wanted to know who was the composer of this song xD

[LePoety]

toll!!!!



[LePoety]

toll!!!!



[seethisisme]

The intro sounds a bit like star wars :)

[erydesi]

I want to get married now.

[RacerXGTO]

Mendelssohn understood that every significant entrance needs a beautiful yet memorable anthem. In Mendelssohn's case, too memorable, but, we call that genius and accept it for what it is. At a soirée for two people, upon playing this music, everything from that point on is fucked!

[SupBub16]

i liked the state farm commercial at the beggining best. :)

[moltoallegro19]

Due to natural reasons I hereby delete any comment that has anything to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Mendelssohn had Jewish heritage, yes already.

This video is about his music, not his possible stand in modern international politics (or Wagner's membership in the NSDAP, either).

[iulypop2003]

@moltoallegro19 If you mean Richard Wagner composer, he was already dead when NSDAP appeared:)

[blueplaystationfan]

:$ xD sentimiento lol esque hoy fue tan linda en la skool

[ShigglySixPounder]

@saulboyjt I certainly wouldn'y say Wagner was an idiot or shmuck. Both Mendelssohn and Wagner were magnificent artists of the highest calibre

[moltoallegro19]

If you are the COPYRIGHT OWNER of any of the content in this video, may I, please, ask that you first contact me, requesting that I delete the

video - without filling a complaint to the YouTube administration - and I WILL DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.

My only wish is to make classical music more available to people not to exploit copyrighted material.

[barrhavener]

@moltoallegro19

Don't worry, most Classical music, including the "Other" Wedding March by Richard Wagner, are in the Public Domain, and as such copyright had long expired.  The recording artists however, do have "performance rights" though.

Unlike pop music, such as "the Hawaiian Wedding Song", classical music has to be support by tax dollars in most countries anyway.

[moltoallegro19]

@barrhavener I know most of the classical repertoire is public domain, but all classical recordings fall under the same copyright laws as any other recorded music (uploading a recording is "copying" it). Every orchestra/conductor/record company have the rights to their recording of a classical work. I have problems on a daily basis with these rights.

[Linkage1992]

I want this played at my funeral.

[Elberiver11]

@opa301 Ja ja, hast du schon gesagt. Wiederhol es, dein Nazi-Blödsinn interessiert eh niemanden. lol

[SoSollEsSein1]

@opa301

Aha... actually he converted.

Wagner wasn`t a "nazi"... how could he be a nazi when he died before Hitler was born?

And such a discussion has nothing to do with this masterpiece... please keep silent and enjoy the music.

Nevertheless, Wagner was a genius.

[Elberiver11]

@SoSollEsSein1 der komische Typ hat sie nicht mehr alle. Ich denke, der kommt nur hierher um Stunk zu machen.

Wagner ist klasse! Ich höre beides, Mendelsohn und Wagner.

Man sollte nicht auf die Religion achten bei Musik , ob Judentum oder Christentum oder sonstwelche Religion ist mir egal, hauptache die Musik ist gut.

[thosenightswrong]

sounds so drama

[Di0guardi]

GENIAL!

[alnutien]

IM THE EMPEROR!!! ON YOUR FEET OR ON YOUR KNEES HUMAN!!!

[live4thesummer]

i cry lots listening to this, its so beautiful!! i would love to have this version when i walk down the aisle, i want pachelbel for my moh and bms!

[dominicLoh]

A very beautiful music..and very inspiring master piece. Orchestra music is so awesome.

[HibaLebanon]

this makes me cry

[00wassup00]

I have to play this all alone at a wedding on the 31st and I'm only 12. WTF

[cookiecrap101]

@00wassup00 GOOD LUCK!

[MerlinTheDraconic]

@00wassup00 Been there, done that. :P Organ or piano?

Okay, what you do is this: find an easy arrangement. Most people will not hear the difference. So long as the melody and the right chords are there, it'll sound right, and they'll all be weeping when the bride comes down the aisle anyways. If you're playing an organ and you've played an organ rarely or never, if you do want to use foot pedals, then only use them for cadences, like if you have V-I, then play those roots with your feet.

[MerlinTheDraconic]

@00wassup00 Also, I'm guessing you're playing for family. If it's your family, they probably don't expect perfection - they want it to be family, and if they picked you, then you're the best for the job. Don't worry about. Also, this recording is fast. At weddings, this song is so slow. Just breathe, hum along, and take a very leisurely tempo. Good luck.

[anthonyxjxkx]

@00wassup00 lol bummer 

[justinbiebersluv3]

@00wassup00 i have to play this at a wedding on the 29th. and i'm freaking out, because this thing is hard. good luck! you aren't alone.

[egbh99]

amazing music

[Frieslandcollege]

wow what a composer

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

is there any connection to richard wagner? I saw on another vid.

thanks

[moltoallegro19]

@JusticeVSpropaganda Wagner has also written a wedding march ("Treulich geführt" from his opera Lohengrin) which more often is refered to as the Bridal Chorus in English (as it is sung in the opera). But these pieces are no more connected than the mere fact that they are both wedding music.

[nyo267n]

@moltoallegro19 Traditionally, both pieces are used during the same ceremony; Wagner as processional music and this one as recessional music.

I love the irony that one of Wagner's most famous pieces is so closely connected to a piece by Mendelssohn, a jewish composer whom he absolutely loathed (although I'm quite sure he secretly admired Mendelssohn, so I suppose that Wagner would have been proud).

[MrJackanthony]

Are they the only orchestra that have done this? Come on!! I'm kidding. Great piece this one. Tripping too if you've got just two hands and are trying to stun an audience

[shadedness]

La mayoría de las parejas que se casan con esta música ignoran que se trata de una música incidental sobre un tema de Shakespeare. M. fue un gran compositor alemán de origen judío y que se llamaba Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Hay una plaza en Berlín en su honor.

[kitty1645]

@shadedness muy bueno saberlo. Me sorprende que esta cancion que todos las hemos escuchado. venga de las hiestoria tan fantastica como de midsummer nigth's dream me esta tocando leerla en mi clase de ingles. y me gusta mucho.

[edwardskrista96]

I'm doing A Midsummer Night's Dream for my lead for Ballet. I'm the one getting married with this song! It's wonderful. :)

[griekgek]

i soooooooo want this at my wedding! Mendelssohn was such a great composer, simpely marvellous.

[naidy031]

and if anything you should be calling it a score!

[JosephCLawrence1]

What a great piece of music. It is amazing how some people are this talented at what they do.

[Minwu325]

haha, this is more prominent than shakespeare =[

[nyongyi]

before he made this song, when peoples married, what music they were playing o.o?

[annonimuz2]

how could someone make such great masterpiece!! BRAVO!!

[pissedmofo]

prefer this over wagner's bridal chorus. Much more regal sounding.

[juffan]

I still prefer "Pachelbel Canon In D" for a wedding song

[gantok2]

My wedding song for sure

[Charmedlassie18]

Thats the song you would walk out to yeah?

[sinamonmac]

طبعا على بالى ونرقص سوا عليها كمان

[sinamonmac]

مش على بالك تسمعيها معي

[mkworkman]

4:50 YouTube video: The very famous Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Felix Mendelssohn, born February 3, 1809.

[mindzstyle]

Today in History -_- : i can read your mind

[PrInCeShAdE1]

3 people will never gonna get a music for there wedding cause this music serves as the music in wedding

[TheUserName125]

@PrInCeShAdE1

uhmm, it's 4 right now

[PrInCeShAdE1]

@TheUserName125 #FTW

[StudWatchTV]

Let's Just get this over with...

[paddotk]

the intro of this song always makes me think of the star wars rebel alliance theme

[UKpatriot90]

@paddotk it's not a song it's a musical piece, what is it with you people?

[paddotk]

@UKpatriot90 what's it with YOU? What does it matter that i accidentally call it a song, you know what i mean. No need to make a fuzz about it.

[UKpatriot90]

@paddotk i'm not making a fuss it's just that i heard soooo many people calling classical pieces songs it just drives me mad :P

[vennabanana]

@UKpatriot90 It really doesn't matter all that much. You're overreacting lol I MEAN SERIOUSLY, WE HAVE ISSUES LIKE RACISM, POVERTY, NATURAL DISASTERS AND JUSTIN BIEBER (sorry to all you bieber fans out there lol) AND YOU'RE OBSESSING OVER SOMEONE CALLING A TUNE A SONG....... in a way i guess i just did, but whatever.

[moltoallegro19]

Well, technically, it was an engagement :P

[TasteForDisaster]

@moltoallegro19 what...?

[moltoallegro19]

@TasteForDisaster If you're really interested: some guy asked some girl here if she'd marry him (as a joke) and some other guy commented something like "OMG I just witnessed a youtube-marriage" and I responded that, technically, it was a n engagement :) Something like that, don't really remember any details.

[TasteForDisaster]

@moltoallegro19 ahh, ok thnx, i just get confused when the i never understand the top comments :P btw, awesome composition xD

[moltoallegro19]

@TasteForDisaster No problem :) And thank you, I've made it myself :P

[TasteForDisaster]

@moltoallegro19 you know that's not what i meant :P but thanks for commenting back, it brought me back to this video/song again :D

[musicguy2793]

I got to witness a YouTube Marriage!!!! Thank you Felix Mendelssohn!!!!!

[moltoallegro19]

@GlamourPeach Will be up on my chanel in aproximately ten minutes, and let me know if it is too short, too long, not the parts you wanted, etc., cause it's really easy to make a new one.

[moltoallegro19]

@GlamourPeach Well, that is quite exactly what I meant in the first place when I asked if you wanted me to keep only a part of it :P Will do.

[moltoallegro19]

@GlamourPeach No, wait, I'm not unwilling to help you, it's just that I don't understand what you mean; you say you want a short version but you don't want me to cut it. How, then, would you suggest that I should do it.

[XxXMissJackson54XxX]

I like listening to this song, close my eyes, and dream that I'm getting married with the boy I love.

[The7legacy]

Hey@XxXMissJackson54XxX,

O.K. let's do it.

Will you marry me? :o)

[XxXMissJackson54XxX]

@The7legacy

Hehe! :) Why not??

[moltoallegro19]

@GlamourPeach What do you mean by a "short version"? In order to make a short video with this piece, I'd have to cut it and only keep a part of it, unless you want me to fast-play it (and I assume that's not what you're after). Still, I don't think you'd get a decent result if it only would be as long as it takes for the bride to walk up to the altar. It's more common to let the march begin before she starts walking, anyways; let the music play for a while and the people rise from their benches.

[moltoallegro19]

@GlamourPeach A short version? You mean, like, only a part of it? If so; what part?

[azelf55]

I LOVE THIS SONG :))

[89DEKI]

I WANT THIS ON MY WEDING!!!!!!! :D It is so beautifull and powerfull. God bless you Mendelson! :) Thank you.

[Dineshfacebook]

Beautiful music.. shall play this for my wedding..

[dussekfan]

I want this played at my wedding (:

[FeceMcGee]

aaaah i didn't know this was from a midsummer night's dream! very cool

[moltoallegro19]

@FeceMcGee Not from Shakespeare's original play, obviously; Mendelssohn wrote this music in 1842.

[Brisbane09]

@FeceMcGee

[KrcoXp]

cool :)

[proman84]

Amazing to think of the hundreds of millions of couples that are married to this music. Well they've certainly picked the right place to start.

[tinaxnoi]

mendelssohn

[barkleysound]

I love this piece~!! thanks for the upload 5/5 

[jeetdg2012]

This is like my all time favorite 

[yvonnengcc]

nice!!

[yvonnengcc]

Very nice!!!

[nakachan119]

The song of the wedding ceremony appears in various ways, but there is not the thing superior to this "wedding march".

[laoniricArte1]

who is free to evoke dreams and memories

Very Beautiful !!!

Many thanks!!! *moltoallegro19* for sharing it!!!

**********Infinites***********­*****

[moltoallegro19]

@laoniricArte1 You're most welcome :)

[pinokio0987654321]

I realy like it....I believe thati it is a MASTERPIECE!!!! Μου αρεσει πολυ....Πιστευω πως ειναι ΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΡΓΗΜΑ!!!

[11candy123]

Ilove the music

[jesserbugs125]

i so love this song, it's a wedding song most people use in a wedding! :D

[takamori400]

I love Mendelssohn!!

I am fond of his violin concerto and other violin music, but this is my favorite piece of his.

Such a great piece and loved by people all over the world.

[pureawesomenessrocks]

i wonder whos playing this?

[moltoallegro19]

It's the London Festival Orchestra, conducted by Henry Adolph.

[magnitooo]

great song

[UKpatriot90]

@magnitooo do you honestly hear any singing? jeez...

[magnitooo]

@UKpatriot90 im not answering some trivial questions

[spicyxlilxman]

@UKpatriot90 words change. have you ever heard of an idiom? denying that this is a song makes your pedantic youtube comments seem pitiful and desperate.

[moltoallegro19]

@spicyxlilxman He might have been rude about it, but he's right; this is not a song. Not now, not a hundred years ago because the term "song" still requires someone singing - that is the very definition of the word.

[spicyxlilxman]

@moltoallegro19 perhaps in the dictionary, but most people would show this to someone and say "check out this song!" and it's important to get over it. YES, i understand the root of the word, but words change meaning.

[moltoallegro19]

@spicyxlilxman But "song" still means "musical piece sung by someone". Hasn't changed since the term was invented. But forget about UKpatriot90 and let me, in the politest way bossible, correct you as I am a man who wishes to spread knowledge about classical music and music in general. Within the classical genres you never use the term "song" the same way you can do in popular music (since almost all popular music contains singing). A more appropriate term to use would be "piece" :)

[spicyxlilxman]

@moltoallegro19 i know the definition is the same. i call them pieces too. i just think that if enough people call it one thing.. that's what a word is.

[moltoallegro19]

@spicyxlilxman Thing is: within the classical music community - nobody calls this a song. But still, I think a few veterans in classical music should drop the attitude when correcting the terminology of someone new to the genre, and instead be glad that that person actually took a moment to stop by and listen and that he/she thought it was a great "song".

[UKpatriot90]

@spicyxlilxman desperate for what?

[spicyxlilxman]

@UKpatriot90 attention? validation? i dunno probably you were just bored. but you are being so pedantic!

[UKpatriot90]

@spicyxlilxman i know i'm bored so i just like saying silly comments :P

[AntoineS16]

dan ganas de casarse escuchando esta maravilla. jajajajaja...la cosa es que estamos como muy jovenes para eso pero bueno jejejjejeje...

thanks for the video!!

[Prodigy502]

ahh!

Mendelsohn or Wagner?

There's two versions...

[moltoallegro19]

No, there are not two versions... Mendelsohn and Wagner have both written very famous wedding marches but just because they both has the name "wedding march" they are not the same piece.

[davidtruongfat]

@moltoallegro19 i thought wagner's version was called bridal march

[moltoallegro19]

@davidtruongfat Bridal march, wedding march... The real title of Wagner's march is "Treulich geführt" other names are just nicknames. "Wedding march" is no title; it's a genre - a march played at a wedding (the same with "Bridal March"). There are no strict rules like "Mendelssohn wrote Wedding March, Wagner wrote Bridal March". They both wrote A wedding march/bridal march.

[andersonchap]

@moltoallegro19 What you have stated here is true... however as an organist who has played for numerous weddings over the years I have noted that the publishers of music consistently designate: Wagner's Bridal March (or Bridal Chorus) - Mendelssohn's Wedding March. For good organization I am glad they have done that. It distinguishes them both differently and makes things easier. Note that recordings are designated this way also.

[andersonchap]

@moltoallegro19 What you have stated is true. However, as an organist who has played for numerous weddings over the year, I quickly became aware, early on, that: "Bridal March" or" Bridal Chorus" always refers to Wagner ( "Here Comes the Bride"), and "Wedding March" refers to Mendelssohn ("Hochzeitsmarsch"). I am glad for that distinction in published music because it just makes things easier, and maintains good order. Note: recordings are designated in the same way.

[moltoallegro19]

@andersonchap Yes, I, too, have noticed this, and agree that it is practical. Still I do not like it when people are being too fundamentalistic about these things since titles are so relatival in classical music and I believe that it is important that one understands the difference between a real title and a "nickname" (if I am allowed to call it so).

[PantherSnider]

oh we are playing that in orechestra at snider

[loboroginegro51]

who wants to married with me

[Prettyshandra8]

aaw, I don´t want to get married

[rocketgopher]

My understanding is that he wrote this piece when he was 33, not 17. He wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream overture when 17, but added the incidental music, including the Wedding March, 16 years later. Obviously, this no way diminuishes his accomplishment in creating such an amazing piece of music.

[moltoallegro19]

Oh, is that so? I obviously must have missunderstood when I read about the music for "A Midsummernigth's dream".

[Humancyclone7]

:D

I come back everyday to watch this video...

Such passion and culture...

ty!

[Realteen]

god help ya love!! lol

[nat4zk]

great trumpets

[ziczac33]

ah, this takes me back to my own wedding.

[Aphexwolf]

LOL for the first few seconds I thought they were gonna play the theme to Rocky!

[camillaboy]

me too! lol

[abuabdellah80]

very nice