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Wedding Music in   Newbury   

Find wedding music ensembles available in  Newbury  on our live wedding music website

See our  Newbury  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a selection of our wedding music musicians across the UK. To locate wedding music in   Newbury  find your county in the drop down box. This will take you to all of our wedding music ensembles that play in your locality.

 
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Interested in our wedding music? Just send an email for a rapid, no obligation quotation. If you'd like to discuss the musical possibilities and alternatives for your special day? Phone or email us at Midsummer Music. We are here to help. To book us, email or phone, it's that simple.      

 

Composers through history - wedding music

Some music has been written specifically for weddings, but most wedding music has been taken from works created for other purposes, Here are some examples of composers:  Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707; age ca. 33); Karl Ritter (1830-ca. 1900; age ca. 70); Joseph Joachim (1831-1907; age ca. 76); Ludvig Norman (1831-1885; age ca. 54); Paul Agricole Genin (1832-1903; age 71); Rudolf Bibl (1832-1902; age 70); Evaristo Dall'Abaco (1675-1742; age 67); Louis-Nicolas Clérembault (1676-1749; age 72); Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726; age 49); Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741; age 63); William Croft (1678-1727; age 48); Georg Friedrich Kaufmann (1679-1735; age ca. 56); Giya Kancheli (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Paolo Arcà (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); David Warin Solomons (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Johan de Meij (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Selman Ada (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Carlo Crivelli (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Arvo Pärt (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); 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); Johann (Jan) Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745; age 66); John Ernest Galliard (1680-1749; age ca. 69); Emanuele d'Astorga (1680-1757; age ca. 77); Guiseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905; age 72); Clément Loret (1833-1909; age ca. 76); Alexander Borodin (1833-1887; age 53); Alphonse Jean Ernest Mailly (1833-1918; age ca. 85); Johannes Brahms (1833-1897; age 63); Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730; age 49); Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767; age 86); Francesco Bartolommeo Conti (1681-1732; age 51); Johann Mattheson (1681-1764; age 82); Jo van den Booren (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Peter Schat (1935-2003; age 67); Peter Schickele (1935-still alive 2003; age ca. 68); Albert Heinrich Zabel (1834-1910; age ca. 76); Blodek Vilem (1834-1874; age 39); Michael Gees (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); David Leisner (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50); Peter Lewis (1953-still alive 2003; age ca. 50);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Music  Newbury   

Wedding Music groups and similar ensembles have been mentioned in novels and plays. Here are some quotations:-

‘E’en little things can yield a perfect pleasure, e’en little things can be supremely dear’—so run the lines of a Tuscan song beautifully set to music by Hugo Wolf. And of nothing is that so true as the ‘little things’ of chamber music. One finds in that field no necessary correlation between size and quality. Homer Ulrich (1906—

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Newbury   

Weddings - Create the perfect ambience for the wedding ceremony, drinks reception and wedding breakfast with one of our Wedding Music groups

You can hear samples of our wedding music online

Corporate & Parties - Our highly versatile Wedding Music musicians also play for a wide spectrum of non wedding events, ranging from formal concerts to hospitality and banquets

 
   Here is some typical repertoire of our wedding music groups   

REPERTOIRE EXAMPLES FOR WEDDING MUSIC

Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck; Pachelbel's Canon [short version] –Pachelbel; Nutcracker Suite - Waltz of the Flowers –Tchaikowsky; Oasis – Wonderwall; Palladio - (by Karl Jenkins); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - (by Jerome Kern); The Teddy Bears' Picnic; Thunderbirds; Ave Maria –Schubert –Schubert; String Quartet K370 –Mozart; String Quartet K285 –Mozart; Hornpipe from the Water Music –Handel; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba –Handel; Air from the Water Music –Handel; Le Rejouissance –Handel; Suite from "CATS" - A Lloyd Webber; The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony; O Sole Mio - Rinaldo do Capua; The Londonderry Air; Country Club - Scott Joplin; Suite from the Dramatic Music of Henry Purcell –Purcell; Brandenburg Concerto No 3 -J S Bach; String Quartet K173 –Mozart; The Four Seasons – Spring –Vivaldi; String Quartet Op 77 no 1 - 1st movement –Haydn; Loure - J S Bach; String Quartet K169 –Mozart; Paragon Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin - The Entertainer ; Heliotrope Bouquet - Scott Joplin; Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin; Scott Joplin's New Rag - Scott Joplin; Nutcracker Suite – Overture –Tchaikowsky; Ave Maria -Schubert; String Quartet K172 –Mozart; Nutcracker Suite – Trepak – Tchaikowsky; Pavane Faure; Nessun Dorma Puccini; String Quartet K158 –Mozart;