Which wedding march is the original one, Mendelssohn's or Wagner's?

Oron, perhaps because you answered in Hebrew. Not everyone can read Hebrew you know...

Oron, Wagner having been the well know anti-Semite, calling, with disdain, Mendelssohn's music 'Jewish', not 'German', it's difficult to believe he would use this 'Jewish' wedding march in his opera "Lohengrin". So?

Mendelsohn's Wedding March preceded that of Wagner. He composed it as part of his Midsummer Night's Dream Suite when he was all of 17, which means in 1826. That year Richard Wagner was all of 13 years old and I doubt he composed anything at that age especially an opera.

What you wrote, I know. I have difficulty, however, believing that Wagner, the arch anti-Semite, used in his opera what he considered inferior "Jewish" music, as he called everything Mendelssohn composed...

I think there is a misunderstanding. There is no connection between the Wedding March in Wagner's Lohengrin and that in Mendelsohn's Midsummer's Night Dream. They are totally different melodies.It is true that the most popular is that of Wagner and sung to the words today, "Here comes the bride....

Sorry, my hearing is just fine and both marches sound to me EXACTLY the same. When have you last listen to both?

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