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Wedding Music in   Yorkshire   

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

See our  Yorkshire  Wedding Music bands and ensembles

Below are a few of our wedding music groups across the UK. For wedding music in   Yorkshire  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:  Morton Subotnick (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Maarten Bon (1933-2003; age 70); Horacio López de la Rosa (1933-1986; age ca. 53); Colin Brumby (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713; age 59); Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706; age 52); George Muffat (1653-1704; age 50); Emilie Mayer (1821-1883; age ca. 62); Louis (Lazarus) Lewandowski (1821-1894; age 72); Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885; age 63); Johannes Worp (1821-1891; age 69); Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889; age 67); Vincent Lübeck (1654-1740; age ca. 86); Sevaas de Konink (1654-1701; age ca. 47); Marin Marais (1656-1728; age 72); Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714; age 56); R. Murray Schafer (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); William Francis McBeth (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Leonardo Balada (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); César Auguste Franck (1822-1890; age 67); Franz Strauss (1822-1905; age 83); Leo Samama (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Guus Janssen (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Gary Carpenter (1951-still alive 2003; age ca. 52); Henryk Górecki (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); James Ciernia (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726; age 68); Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709; age 50); Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1659-1729; age ca. 70); Henry Purcell (1659-1695; age 36); Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722; age 62); Marius van Paassen (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Joseph Waters (1952-still alive 2003; age ca. 51); Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882; age 60); Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903; age 80); Edouard Lalo (1823-1892; age 69); Gottfried Finger (1660-1730; age ca. 70); Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741; age ca. 81); Norbert Goddaer (1933-still alive 2003; age ca. 70); Robin Holloway (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Roger Reynolds (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69); Alemdar Karamanov (1934-still alive 2003; age ca. 69);

 
 

Wedding Music - a quotation:  Yorkshire   

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  Yorkshire   

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

To Life (from 'Fiddler on the Roof); Fawlty Towers; Tango Por Una Cabeza – Gardel; 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; El Relicario – Padilla; Spanish Dance; Brazilian Fiddler; Pasadena; Jealousy Tango; 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; Making Whoopee; Sunrise, Sunset; if You Knew Susie; Dad's Army; Moonlight and Roses; 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; Scott Joplin - Ragtime Dance; Czardas; The Entertainer; Thunderbirds; Leroy Anderson - Fiddle-Faddle; Chopin - Grand Valse Brilliante; Mascangi – Intermezzo; Dvorak - Humoresque no.1;