Funeral March - Examples in Classical Music

Examples in Classical Music

• The Marche funèbre second movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Symphony for solo piano, Op. 39, No. 5.
• Alkan's "Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot" for four-part chorus, three bassoons, and oboe
• The second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).
• The third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12 (written in the key of A-flat minor with a middle section in A-flat major).
• A funeral march, formerly attributed to Beethoven (WoO Anhang 13), believed to be by Johann Heinrich Walch, played at the Remembrance Day Cenotaph Service.
• The Funeral March for the Final Scene of Hamlet by Hector Berlioz.
• The ninth variation from Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10.
• Marche funèbre for piano written by Frédéric Chopin in 1837, which became the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35.
• Chopin's Marche funèbre for piano in C minor, Op. posth. 72, No. 2.
• The funeral march in Ferdinand David's Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra.
• The Trauermarsch written by Anton Diabelli in memory of Michael Haydn for solo guitar.
• The funeral march from Zdeněk Fibich's opera The Bride of Messina.
• The "Funeral Music" for Akhnaten's father in Act I of the opera Akhnaten, by Philip Glass.
• "Funeral March for a Marionette" from "Suite Burlesque" by Charles Gounod; this later became known to contemporary audiences as the theme music used for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series.
• The Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak by Edvard Grieg.
• The Dead March from Saul by George Frideric Handel.
• The third movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.3 in E-Flat Minor Op.30
• A funeral march for Napoleon Bonaparte, in Háry János, by Zoltán Kodály, after Napoleon has been defeated by the hero Háry János.
• Franz Liszt's Marche funèbre, En mémoire de Maximilian I, Empereur du Mexique ("Funeral march, In memory of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico") from Années de pèlerinage, Book 3.
• The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony, "Funeral March in the Manner of Callot" based on "Bruder Martin", the German minor-key variant of the children's song "Frère Jacques.", and the Trauermarsch opening movement of his Symphony No. 5.
• The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini.
• The March "sounded before her chariot" from Henry Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary.
• The fourth movement of Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 1.
• The "Funeral March:" Adagio Molto from Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15.
• "Siegfried's Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner.