# Whats your favorite piece of classical music? or  What did you have at your wedding?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 16, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-classical-music-or-what-did-you-have-at-your-wedding/54674 "2001-02-16T02:17:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-classical-music-or-what-did-you-have-at-your-wedding/54674/41 "2001-02-18T00:24:11Z")

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Currently I am grooving to Fauré’s _Pavane_. I had heard it years before without knowing what it was called, and carried the tune in my head for about 5 years until it came on the radio and I found out what it was. Sweeetly sad and achingly beautiful; it sounds like the memory of a lost world. The same goes for the middle part of Dvorak’s _Humoreske_–the part in a minor key.

_The Moldau (Vltava), In the Steppes of Central Asia,_ and _Scheherazade_–I second that emotion! Are you thinking of the section titled “The Young Prince and the Young Princess”? I like the whole thing, especially “The Sea and Sindbad’s Ship”.

At my first wedding the harpist played Grieg’s “Wedding Day at Trondheim”.

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-piece-of-classical-music-or-what-did-you-have-at-your-wedding/54674/42 "2001-02-18T19:31:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MaxTheVool \*  
> **…Mathis Der Maler (and whoever else mentioned it gets massive brownie points)…**

Wohoo! Brownie points! Yeehaw!

Believe me, it was difficult limiting my self to one piece of music. I finally narrowed it down to the three categories I chose. All these pieces are great.

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