This Day in the Arts: January 25
1858:
Felix Mendelssohn’s “The Wedding March” becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter Victoria to Frederick, the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1882:
English feminist writer Virginia Woolf is born. She is known for the novels Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse as well as the essay “A Room of One’s Own.”
