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Wedding Music in   Sheffield   

Find wedding music groups who perform in  Sheffield  on our this web site of wedding music groups

See our  Sheffield  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a few of our wedding music groups across the UK. For wedding music in   Sheffield  choose your county from the drop down box to see the wedding music groups that play 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:  Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949; age 78); Franz Schmidt (1874-1939; age 64); Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947; age 72); Albert William Ketelby (1875-1959; age 84); Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962; age 86); Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952; age 76); Joseph Ryelandt (1870-1965; age 95); Alfred Hill (1870-1960; age 89); Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938; age 68); Charles Tournemire (1870-1939; age 69); Michel Lysight (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Simon Holt (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Magnus Lindberg (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912; age 37); Walter Courvoisier (1875-1931; age ca. 56); Gordon Crosse (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Manuel Juarez (1937-still alive 2003; age ca. 66); Tormod Sæverud (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen (1958-still alive 2003; age ca. 45); Tim Knight (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Florent Schmitt (1870-1958; age 87); Eduardo García Mansilla (1870-1930; age ca. 60); Franz Lehár (1870-1948; age 78); Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894; age 24); Cornelis Dopper (1870-1939; age 69); William Bolcom (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); John Harbison (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65); Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940; age 64); Héctor (Ettore) Panizza (1875-1967; age 92); Maurice Ravel (1875-1937; age 62); Louis Vierne (1870-1937; age 66); Vilhelm Eugene Stenhammar (1871-1927; age 56); James MacMillan (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Stéphane Roy (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Shigeru Kan-no (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Vladimír Franz (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Ronald Caltabiano (1959-still alive 2003; age ca. 44); Mikalojus Ciurlionis (1875-1911; age 35); Arturo Luzzatti (1875-1959; age ca. 84); Manuel de Falla (1876-1946; age 69); Carl Ruggles (1876-1971; age 95); Pierre Csillag (1938-still alive 2003; age ca. 65);

 
 

Wedding Music - a quotation:  Sheffield   

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  Sheffield   

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

Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.7; Elgar - Chanson de Matin/Nuit; Bach - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; Elgar – Nimrnd; Girl – McCartney; She Loves You – McCartney; I Will – McCartney; Here Comes the Sun – McCartney; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Sherwin; 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; Baby Elephant Walk – Mancini; Charade – Mancini; Days of Wine & Roses – Mancini; Every Time We Say Good-Bye - Cole Porter; Guantanamera; 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; I Love You Samantha - Cole Porter; Just Another Rhumba – Gershwin; La Bamba; Maggie's Theme [from the Thorn Birds] – Mancini; Match of the Day; 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; Pie In The Dace Polka [from the Great Race] – Mancini; Roast Beef of Old England [Military];