A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March

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• The Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61, appears as an intermezzo between the last two acts of the play.
• The march is part of the wedding celebration of Theseus and Hippolyta.
• The Wedding March also appears as a reprise near the end of the play as a recessional to which the court retires from the scene at midnight (right before the elves show up for the finale).¹

1. R. Larry Todd, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 459.