It began as music to accompany a horse-drawn coffin through the city streets—but over the years, composers have used it in a variety of settings, from serious to comic.
In this hour, music to die for--funeral marches for a real queen, a fictional prince, a puppet, a parrot, and more.
FEATURED RECORDINGS| CD Title | Disc/Track* | Catalog # | UPC |
| Mendelssohn : A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 11 | EMI CDC 7471632 | 0724357498128 |
| Purcell: Funeral & Sacred Music | 1/8 | Brilliant Classics BLC99790 | 5028421997902 |
| Purcell: Music for Queen Mary | 25 | EMI Classics 094634443821 | 094634443821 |
| Berlioz: Grande Symphonie Funebre | 2/7 | Philips 456 143-2 | 028945614328 |
| Kodaly Conducts Kodaly | 15 | DG 427 408-2 | 028942740822 |
| Tortelier's French Bonbons [for Gounod’s Funeral March of the Marionette] | 2 | Chandos CHAN 9765 | 095115976524 |
| Mahler: Symphony No. 1 | 3 | EMI CDE5749632 | 0724357496322 |
| Chopin Complete Edition | 7/ 7 | DG 4778445 | 028947784456 |
| Rossini: La Gazza Ladra | 2/19 | Chandos CHAN 3097 | 095115309728 |
| Lewenthal Concerto Recordings [for Alkan’s Funeral for a Dead Parrot] | 2/9 | Elan 744198-2284-2 | 744198228425 |
| Beethoven Complete Sonatas | 4/7 | DG 4631272 | 028941960221 |
| Walton : Scenes from Shakespeare | 16 | CHAN 7041 | 095115704127 |
| Grieg: Complete Music for Piano, Vol. 4 | 19 | BIS BISCD107 | 7318590001073 |
| Grieg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 | 8 | Naxos 8.557854 | 0747313285426 |
