' ("For the wedding ceremony"), WAB 54, is a wedding song composed by

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on 27 November 1878.

History

Bruckner composed the setting for the

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of his landlord Anton Ölzelt Ritter von Newin with Amalie Edler von Wieser. The piece was intended to be performed during the ceremony in the church of the Klosterneuburg Abbey. However, the ceremony did not occur, because the groom was a

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.C. van Zwol, p. 728U. Harten, p. 503 The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the ' in Vienna. It was first published in the yearbook of the Klosterneuburg Abbey (

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) in 1910. It has been re-edited by Wöss in 1921 together with the Ave Regina caelorum, WAB 8. It is put in Band XXIII/2, No. 30 of the '.Gesamtausgabe – Weltliche Chöre
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Text

The work sets a text by Heinrich von der Mattig.

Music

The 64-

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long work in

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is scored for a men's choir ''a cappella''.

Discography

There is a single recording of ': * Thomas Kerbl, Chorvereinigung Bruckner 12, ''Weltliche Männerchöre'' – CD: LIVA 054, 2012 (sung by a men's vocal quartet)

References

Sources

* ''Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893)'', Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (Editor), Vienna, 1989 *

Uwe Harten Uwe Harten (born 16 August 1944) is a German musicologist, who works in Austria. Life Born in , Harten grew up in Hamburg, where he was a boy soprano at the Staatsoper. He took over the roles of a child. In Hamburg he also began his studies of ...

, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. , Salzburg, 1996. . * Cornelis van Zwol, ''Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken'', uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012.

External links

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Zur Vermählungsfeier D-Dur, WAB 54
Critical discography by Hans Roelofs * The performance of ''Zur Vermählungsfeier'', WAB 54, by the Männerchorvereinigung Bruckner 12 can be heard on YouTube
''Zur Vermählungsfeier''
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