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The Bach/Gounod Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text Ave Maria
Hail Mary

File:Madonna. Petit Palais Avignon.jpgThe Hail Mary or Ave Maria is a traditional Catholic prayer asking for the intercession of the Mary , the mother of Jesus....
.

Written by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
 in 1859, his Ave Maria consists of a melody
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier , BWV 846?893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of prelude and fugues in all 24 major and minor key , dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already...
 (BWV 846), composed by J. S. Bach some 137 years earlier. (Gounod adds one bar so as to smooth out a rough change in harmony in the prelude.)

There are many different instrumental arrangements of the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria, including for violin and guitar, string quartet, piano solo, and even trombones.






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The Bach/Gounod Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text Ave Maria
Hail Mary

File:Madonna. Petit Palais Avignon.jpgThe Hail Mary or Ave Maria is a traditional Catholic prayer asking for the intercession of the Mary , the mother of Jesus....
.

Written by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
 in 1859, his Ave Maria consists of a melody
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier , BWV 846?893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He first gave the title to a book of prelude and fugues in all 24 major and minor key , dated 1722, composed "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already...
 (BWV 846), composed by J. S. Bach some 137 years earlier. (Gounod adds one bar so as to smooth out a rough change in harmony in the prelude.)

There are many different instrumental arrangements of the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria, including for violin and guitar, string quartet, piano solo, and even trombones. It is often performed in Christian wedding ceremonies. Many pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 and opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 singers as well as choirs have recorded it during the twentieth century.

See also

  • Ellens dritter Gesang
    Ellens dritter Gesang

    Ellens dritter Gesang , Ellen's third song in English language, composed by Franz Schubert in 1825, is one of Schubert's most popular works, although some misconceptions exist regarding its provenance....
     also known as the "Ave Maria" by Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    .


External Resources

  • Full score available at the International Music Score Library Project
    International Music Score Library Project

    The International Music Score Library Project , now also known as the Petrucci Music Library after Ottaviano Petrucci, is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain sheet music, based on the wiki principle....


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