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This piece of music was composed by famous composer Richard Wagner in 1848 for his opera called Lohengrin. The second piece of music known as The Wedding March was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1842 as a march written for Shakespeareâs A Midsummer Nightâs Dream.
She did not start the fashion of wearing white. That was a custom in many cultures around the world long before the British monarchy existed. She did however set the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding march trend. Mendelssohn had tought her to sing, and Albert was an afficionado of more modern sounding music (and liked Wagner particularly). Outside the wedding halls, you would not find too many places where one could hear those two composers sharing a stage. And today many brides chose different music for their weddings (I wrote and played my cousin's wedding march, and she married a Brit).