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What music was played at Queen Victoria's wedding?

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HM Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved music. They were a very musically inclined royals. read more

I have never been able to find what music was played at Queen Victoria’s wedding. However, when her oldest daughter Victoria (Vicky) married Prince Frederick of Prussia, they played Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and it became a very popular wedding music selection. read more

The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was solemnized on the 10th of February 1840, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Queen Victoria's wedding day was inauspicious, a heavy rain falling; but immense multitudes assembled to gaze upon the processions. read more

6. Arthur Sullivan, Victoria and Merrie England For Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) wrote a grand Jubilee Anthem.A decade later, he took a very different approach to writing music for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. read more

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Further Research

Music for Queen Victoria
classical915.org

Queen Victoria Wedding
www.queenvictoria.victoriana.com

Queen Victoria’s Wedding
www.historytoday.com

Royal wedding music
www.theroyalforums.com