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Wedding Music in   Rochester   

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

See our  Rochester  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a selection of our wedding music musicians across the UK. To locate wedding music in   Rochester  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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Wedding music and composers

Wedding music for civil and for church weddings is sometimes different, in that the music used in civil ceremonies must not have religeous connotations. Examples of composers are:  Christiaan Verhoog (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (1823-1874; age 50); Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens (1823-1881; age 58); Carl Reinecke (1824-1910; age 85); Anton Bruckner (1824-1896; age 72); Roger Bourland (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1660-ca. 1730; age ca. 70); André Campra (1660-1744; age 83); Sebastián Durón (1660-1716; age 56); Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725; age 65); Georg Böhm (1661-1733; age 71); Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756; age ca. 95); Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712; age ca. 49); Philippe Manoury (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Archimedes Ramond (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Wolfgang Rihm (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); James V. Signorile (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884; age 60); Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998; age 63); Marian Borkowski (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Joseph (Joep) Willem Frederik Straesser (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Vassil Kazandjiev (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Vinko Globokar (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-1745; age 82); Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716; age 52); Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899; age 73); Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917; age ca. 91); Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864; age 37); John Thomas (1826-1913; age ca. 87); Edmond Dédé (1827-1903; age ca. 76); Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697; age ca. 32); Johann-Heinrich Buttstett (1666-1727; age 61); Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752; age ca. 85); Antonio Lotti (1667-1740; age ca. 73); John Eccles (1668-1735; age ca. 67); Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Georg Kröll (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Gustav Adolf Merkel (1827-1885; age 57); Alexander Levkovich (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Gerhard Fischer-Münster (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Kaija Saariaho (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Karl Boelter (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51);

 
 

A quote for Wedding Music  Rochester   

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

Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse’s tail on the entrails of a cat. Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914?) The Devil ~ Dictionary, 1923

Live Music for Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events in  Rochester   

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   

WEDDING MUSIC - TYPICAL REPERTOIRE

Autumn Leaves; I Know Him So Well - Anderson, Rice, Ulvaeus; Summertime – Gershwin; It Ain't Necessarily So – Gershwin; Handel - Allegro from Recorder Sonata; Purcell - Trumpet Tune; Jerusalem; Massenet - Meditation from Thais; Pachelbel – Canon; Puccini - Nessun Dorma; Rossini - William Tell Overture; 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; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K298 – Mozart; Smetana - Dance of the Comedians; Pachelbel's Canon & Gigue [Full version] – Pachelbel; Sullivan - Three Little Maids from School are We; Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite; Verdi - Drinking Song from La Traviata; Vivaldi - The Four Seasons; And I love Her – McCartney; Moon River – Mancini; The Thorn Birds Theme – Mancini; Here There & Everywhere – McCartney; Maria from West Side Story – Bernstein; Wagner - Here Comes the Bride; For He's A Jolly Good Fellow; Nutcracker Suite – March – Tchaikowsky; Flute & String Quartet op 3 no 1 – Haydn; Quartet for flute, violin, viola, cello K285b – Mozart; Air on a G String, Gavotte, Bouree, Gigue -J S Bach; Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's Marh) -J Clarke; Girl – McCartney; She Loves You – McCartney; I Will – McCartney; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; Nutcracker Suite - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy –Tchaikowsky; Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo Act 2) -C W von Gluck;