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Wedding Music in   Paignton   

Find available wedding music groups in  Paignton  on our national live wedding music database

See our  Paignton  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Some of our wedding music options across the UK. To view wedding music in   Paignton  select your county from the drop down box. This will show the wedding music options available in your area.

 
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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:  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);

 
 

What has been written about Wedding Music  Paignton   

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  Paignton   

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

Suite from South Pacific & The King & I - Rogers & Hammerstein; Makin' Whoopee – Donaldson; When I Fall In Love; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Love Changes Everything - from Aspects of Love; Autumn Leaves; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Beer Barrel Polka; I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' – Gershwin; Theme Song from Molly Maguires – Mancini; When I'm 64 – McCartney; They Didn't Believe Me; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1; Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; And I love Her – McCartney; Moon River – Mancini; The Thorn Birds Theme – Mancini; Here There & Everywhere – McCartney; Maria from West Side Story – Bernstein; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1;