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Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

Bridal Chorus, from Lohengrin

Here Comes the Bride, from Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1850), arranged for piano

In Wedding music

Level
4 of 7
Time
2/4
Length
71 bars
Plays in
1 to 2 min

No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 92: the middle of the speeds usually quoted for Andante. Its length counts from that.

Practise it

Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.

The opening bars of Bridal Chorus, from Lohengrin
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.

  • As written707 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand451 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots247 notes
  • Right-hand melody176 notes

The easy version, the melody and a simpler left hand at level 3, engraved on its own page.

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from B3 to G6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from F2 to G4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 2 flats (B♭ major or G minor)
  • Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: octaves, 4ths, 3rds (skips), 5ths, 2nds (steps), 6ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms

What stands between you and this piece

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Score typed for Clefsight from Carl Fischer, New York, 1891, plate 2879 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: Richard Wagner died in 1883. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one rests on its source’s licence (CC0 1.0). Credits

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