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Wedding Music in   The West Midlands   

Find wedding music groups who perform in  The West Midlands  on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our  The West Midlands  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a few of our wedding music groups across the UK. For wedding music in   The West Midlands  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding music groups that play in your area.

 
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Wedding music, composers and wedding music

The music of many composers has been used for weddings. Wedding music is normally taken from the best of classical and baroque music that has stood the test of time. Here are some examples of composers:  Mathieu Dijker (1927-still alive 2003; age ca. 76); Karl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759; age 55); Kurt Schwertsik (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Khayam Mirza-Zade (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Bojidar Dimov (1935-2003; age ca. 68); Jo van den Booren (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Franco Donatoni (1927-2000; age 73); Pierre Henry (1927-still alive 2003; age ca. 76); Walter Hartley (1927-still alive 2003; age ca. 76); Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918; age 70); Richard Eilenberg (1848-1927; age ca. 79); Francisco Hargreaves (1849-1900; age ca. 51); Ole Olsen (1850-1927; age 77); Peter Schat (1935-2003; age 67); Nicholas Chédeville (1705-1782; age ca. 77); Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785; age 78); Giovanni Gualberto Brunetti (1706-1787; age ca. 81); Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784; age 78); Jakob Adolf Hägg (1850-1928; age ca. 78); Alexander Taneyev (1850-1918; age 68); Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924; age 74); Pierre Mercure (1927-1966; age 38); Augusto Rattembach (1927-still alive 2003; age ca. 76); Robert Helps (1928-2001; age 73); Morley Calvert (1928-1991; age ca. 63); Michel Corrette (1707-1795; age 87); Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776; age 67); Pasquale Cafaro (1708-1787; age 79); Peter Schickele (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Roque De Pedro (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Samuel Adler (1928-still alive 2003; age ca. 75); Aloÿs Claussmann (1850-1926; age ca. 76); Iver Holter (1850-1941; age 90); Karl Komzak (1850-1905; age 54); Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900; age 49); Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931; age 80); Andrei Schulz-Evler (1852-1905; age ca. 53); Derek Strahan (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Terry Riley (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Aulis Sallinen (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775; age 67); Charles Avison (1709-1770; age 61);

 
 

Wedding Music - a quotation:  The West Midlands   

Literature has many references about wedding music ensembles and their instruments. Here are some examples-

The significance of chamber music is that in dealing with the intimate it can attain to the ineffable. Chamber music conceives itself as a world of sound that has external boundaries but no internal ones. Hans Werner Henze (1926— Music and Politics, 1982,’Instrumental Composition’, 1963

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  The West Midlands   

Wedding - With one of our Wedding Music bands you can be sure that your special day will be made even more special with music during the wedding ceremony, drinks reception or wedding breakfast.

You can hear samples of our wedding music online

Corporate & Parties - Our talented and adaptable Wedding Music bands have extensive repertoires enabling them to play appropriate music for a wide spectrum of events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Some examples of the repertoire of our wedding music bands   

WEDDING MUSIC - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

The Inspector Clouseau Theme – Mancini; The Way You Look Tonight; Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger; Anything Goes; Humoreske – Dvorak; String Quartet K298 – Mozart; Morning – Grieg; String Quartet K159 – Mozart; Flower Duet from Lakme – Delibes; Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Grieg; Moment Musicale Op 94 No 3 – Schubert; Dark Eyes - Trad.; Getting Sentimental Over You; Hello Dolly; It Had To Be You; Match of the Day; Norwegian Dance – Grieg; String Quartet K160 – Mozart; Slavonic Dance – Dvorak; Four Fancies for flute & string trio - Gordon Jacob; Salut d'Amou – Elgar; Chanson de Matin – Elgar; Minuet from Sonata Op 49 – Boccherini; Cabaret; Let Me Try Again; Gershwin - I Got Rhythm; Misty; Spread a Little Happiness; 3 Quartets for flute, violin, viola, cello – Playel; Adagio Cantabile from Sonata Op 1 – Beethoven; Adagio in C K356 – Mozart; String Quartet K157 – Mozart; Andante from oboe concerto – Haydn; Ave Maris – Gounod; Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann; As Time Goes By; When I Fall in Love; Stardust; Autumn Leaves; Lara's Theme; Capriol Suite – Warlock; String Quartet K168 – Mozart;