Examples With The Character of A Funeral March But Not Specifically Titled As Funeral Marches
- Masonic Funeral Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- The theme from Beethoven's "Nine Variations on a March by Ernst Christoph Dressler" for piano, WoO 63, is a funeral march.
- Song Without Words, Op. 62, No. 3, by Felix Mendelssohn; this is often called "Trauermarsch," but it is so called without the composer's approval.
- The 2nd movement of Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem has the characteristics of a funeral march, but it is in a slow triple metre.
- The song "Der Tamboursg'sell" ("The Drummer Boy") from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, by Gustav Mahler.
- Zaubermarsch, a composition for orchestra written in 1990 by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.
- Surusoitto (Funeral Music) for organ, Op. 111b (1931), from "2 Pieces in memory of Akseli Gallen-Kallela", by Jean Sibelius.
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