Mendelsohn/Liszt/Horowitz/Volodos Wedding March

[misovi]

Can someone pls give me the sheet music for Volodos Wedding march? I cant find it anywhere.

[visitor]

given that the pianist is alive, if it is published (may not be if a basic google did not yield a publisher) this would most certainly be protected by copyright. could be requested 50 or so years after the pianist passes away if intellectual property rights laws stay pretty much the same in the future.

[mjames]

transcribe it with your ears



or you know

buy it

[iansinclair]

May I, as a career Minister of Music, invade this thread just a bit?  It's a fine bit of music -- from the incidental music to "A Midsummer's Night Dream".

It is regarded, however, amongst the church musician fraternity as an exceedingly dubious choice for an actual wedding.  Please, if you can help it, perform it -- but try  not to use it for a wedding march for a wedding.  There are so many other really good processionals out there which don't refer to a dream/nightmare!

I might add that the Wagner/Lohengrin is also a poor choice; it, at least, isn't a dream -- but the wedding to which it refers was doomed before the vows were ever taken.

[liszt1022]

If you listen to M/L, M/L/H, or M/L/H/V you'll see it's not meant for an actual wedding anyway. They are variations on the theme.

[misovi]

Yes, but how is it then that thre is sheet music for his turkish march or HR no. 13?

[8_octaves]

Yes, but how is it then that thre is sheet music for his turkish march or HR no. 13?

Hi misovi,

many years ago, in German TV, Arcadi Volodos was introduced in a broadcast of which the name I have forgotten. What I didn't forget, was the following:

He was introduced by the moderator as "Student of Horowitz", which is, of course, nonsense, since Horowitz himself only counted THREE persons to his REAL students. (He stated, if there were others who claimed it, it simply wasn't true.) - and Volodos doesn't belong to the three.

Now, Volodos played not wedding march, but stars and stripes forever, and the moderator pointed out, that "Volodos got the "permission to get the score by Horowitz himself" ( or by Wanda), which is hardly to imagine for me, but maybe could be..

But this would have been a difficult thing, since, e.g., speaking of some of these Horowitz-arrangements, Horowitz didn't like to have them published at all (e.g.: Carmen-variations), and once, as a biography of him says, there was a pianist who wrote one or two of these arrangements down by ear, then played them in a concert: Horowitz noticed that, and contacted the guy, but, if I remember correctly, in a friendly manner. (But the guy wasn't Volodos, either).

So there might be ways for all of the Horowitz-arrangements to come into public view, but these ways aren't / weren't too easy. And nowadays, there might be copyrights or heritage-bound restrictions, which allow, maybe, only SOME of the arrangements to be published, and others not.

Last factor is: IF e.g. Volodos or others has / have written down them EXACTLY as they were played (which some people really could do), in actual performances they might modify them themselves for their own taste and purpose.

Very cordially, 8_octaves!