COMPOSITION BY GERMAN OF JEWISH BIRTH FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Wedding March; The Wedding March (song)
Felix Mendelssohn's "WeddingMarch" 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.
¦ noun a piece of march music played at the entrance of the bride or the exit of the couple at a wedding.
TheMarch (1945)
DEATH MARCH DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE
The Lamsdorf Death March; Lamsdorf Death March; Forced March from the Eastern Front
"TheMarch" refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. From a total of 257,000 western Allied prisoners of war held in German military prison camps, over 80,000 POWs were forced to march westward across Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany in extreme winter conditions, over about four months between January and April 1945.
1. After exchanging vows, Archbold and Wilde were given a standing ovation by the crowd of several thousand as the Philly Pops played the wedding march.