ISMN#: 979-0-3071-0078-7
ASCAP WORK ID#: 936141309
Enrich your repertoire with this intermediate arrangement for woodwind quintet, which offers six popular wedding-music selections in one collection at a 50% discount--instantly downloadable for your next holiday performance. With the CMP Wedding Music Collection, your audiences will enjoy hearing:
🎶Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," from Cantata BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”
🎶Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio Solomon
🎶Handel's "Air" from the Water Music Suites
🎶Clarke's (Attr. Purcell) "Trumpet Voluntary"
🎶Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin, and
🎶Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," from A Midsummer Night's Dream
The popular “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” is from Bach’s Cantata BWV 147, written in 1723 during his early years as Thomaskantor (music director) at the world-famous Thomanerkirche, a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany. Handel composed “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” a wedding music staple, in 1749 to depict the bustling preparations and fervor surrounding the Queen of Sheba's regal state visit to the UK. Handel’s perennial favorite “Air” comes from the Water Music Suites, first performed in 1717 for King George I at an aristocratic celebration aboard a royal barge traveling up the River Thames in London, England.
Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary,” written around 1700, was also known as the "Prince of Denmark March," and found renewed popularity when it was performed at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. The “Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin is a staple of American and European wedding music. It is famously used for the bridal processional, generally known as "Here Comes the Bride." Finally, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” from his Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was written in 1842, five years before Mendelssohn's death. A Prussian king commissioned this exuberant, popular recessional march while Mendelssohn was the Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchester in Leipzig, Germany.
These six selections are perfect for college groups, amateur ensembles, and professional quintets. As always, I have included an alternate bass clarinet part in lieu of a missing bassoon. Although originally scored for various configurations, this unique setting for winds will delight your audiences and add just the right touch of class to any wedding. With our CMP Wedding Music Collection, you can save 50% off the price of each individual piece and help support a veteran-owned business.
Updated 30 Sep 2026
ISMN#: 979-0-3071-0078-7
ASCAP WORK ID#: 936141309
Enrich your repertoire with this intermediate arrangement for woodwind quintet, which offers six popular wedding-music selections in one collection at a 50% discount--instantly downloadable for your next holiday performance. With the CMP Wedding Music Collection, your audiences will enjoy hearing:
🎶Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," from Cantata BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”
🎶Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from the oratorio Solomon
🎶Handel's "Air" from the Water Music Suites
🎶Clarke's (Attr. Purcell) "Trumpet Voluntary"
🎶Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin, and
🎶Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," from A Midsummer Night's Dream
The popular “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” is from Bach’s Cantata BWV 147, written in 1723 during his early years as Thomaskantor (music director) at the world-famous Thomanerkirche, a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany. Handel composed “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” a wedding music staple, in 1749 to depict the bustling preparations and fervor surrounding the Queen of Sheba's regal state visit to the UK. Handel’s perennial favorite “Air” comes from the Water Music Suites, first performed in 1717 for King George I at an aristocratic celebration aboard a royal barge traveling up the River Thames in London, England.
Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary,” written around 1700, was also known as the "Prince of Denmark March," and found renewed popularity when it was performed at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. The “Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin is a staple of American and European wedding music. It is famously used for the bridal processional, generally known as "Here Comes the Bride." Finally, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March,” from his Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was written in 1842, five years before Mendelssohn's death. A Prussian king commissioned this exuberant, popular recessional march while Mendelssohn was the Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchester in Leipzig, Germany.
These six selections are perfect for college groups, amateur ensembles, and professional quintets. As always, I have included an alternate bass clarinet part in lieu of a missing bassoon. Although originally scored for various configurations, this unique setting for winds will delight your audiences and add just the right touch of class to any wedding. With our CMP Wedding Music Collection, you can save 50% off the price of each individual piece and help support a veteran-owned business.
Updated 30 Sep 2026
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