 In 1851 an adulatory novel by the teenaged Elizabeth Sara Sheppard was published , entitled Charles Auchester . The book features as its leading character Mendelssohn , as the " Chevalier Seraphael " , and remained in print for nearly 80 years . In 1854 Queen Victoria requested that the Crystal Palace include a statue of Mendelssohn when it was rebuilt . Mendelssohn 's Wedding March from A Midsummer Night 's Dream was played at the wedding of Queen Victoria 's daughter , Princess Victoria , The Princess Royal , to Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia in 1858 , and it remains popular at marriage ceremonies . Mendelssohn 's sacred choral music , particularly the smaller @-@ scale works , remains popular in the choral tradition of the Church of England . However many critics , including Bernard Shaw , began to condemn Mendelssohn 's music for its association with Victorian cultural insularity ; Shaw in particular complained of the composer 's " kid @-@ glove gentility , his conventional sentimentality , and his despicable oratorio @-@ mongering " . In the 1950s the scholar Wilfrid Mellers complained of Mendelssohn 's " spurious religiosity which reflected the element of unconscious humbug in our morality " . 
