Richard Wagner - Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral from ‘Lohengrin’ for Double Bass Quartet

Arranged by David Heyes

Wagner’s opera Lohengrin was completed in 1848 and was premiered in Weimar two years later under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and supporter of the composer. Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral comes at the end of Act II as the heroine is about to be married to an unnamed knight, who is Lohengrin, a Knight of the Holy Grail.

The music is s...