Wedding Music

George Frideric Handel

A tuneful piece of organ music from the Water Music, often played at wedding ceremonies

Johann Sebastian Bach

A traditional piece of organ music - calm and gentle.

Jacques Offenbach

Transport yourselves to a night of love in Venice. Unbeatable.

Richard Wagner

A fanfare says "Stand Up" and a stately theme accompanies the bride's entrance.

Kenneth Gange

Part of a pair of marches, intended to bookend a wedding ceremony.

Karl Goldmark

A less-familiar, congenial piece. Quite jolly.

Giovanni Battista Sammartini

What a beautiful melody. Very pleasant.

Johann Sebastian Bach

A fast and exciting aria about Spring being the season for new love

Alfred Hollins

Striving; yearning; short, upwardly arched repeated fragments, eventually take flight in a melody characterised by wide intervals. Soaring like a couple at a wedding.

Léo Delibes

An exotic duet, perfumed one might say. Nothing at all to do with a wedding, but comes under the heading of "Good tunes that people might recognise".

Giuseppe Verdi

A stirring, grand march

Erik Satie

Satie's piece was written in 1888, but sounds so modern.