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Portrait of Franz Schubert by Franz Eybl (1827) Walter Scott " Ellens dritter Gesang" ("Ellens Gesang III", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Op. 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's 1810 popular narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German.
Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott.
The New Schubert Edition at schubert-ausgabe.de; SCHUBERT FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: A TIMELINE at schubertusa.weebly.com; Franz Schubert (1797–1828) – The Complete Songs at www.hyperion-records.co.uk; Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828) at The LiederNet Archive; Schubertlied.de (downloadable recordings of songs by Schubert)
Schubert's Opus 1: "Erlkönig", D 328, fourth version, was published by Diabelli as Schubert's "1 tes Werk" (first work) in 1821. The Lied, composed by Schubert in 1815, was later adopted along with its prior versions as No. 178 in Series XX, Vol. 3 of the AGA (1895), and in Series IV, Vol. 1 of the NSE (1970).
The Hail Mary (Latin: Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation [1] [2] is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke : the Angel Gabriel 's visit to Mary (the Annunciation ) and Mary's subsequent visit to Elisabeth , the mother of John the Baptist ...
Like the other Marian antiphons, Ave Regina caelorum has been set to polyphonic music by composers such as Leonel Power (d. 1445), Guillaume Du Fay (d. 1474), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 3 settings, H.22, H.19, H. 45, Manuel de Sumaya (1678-1755), and Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0520219570 ISBN 9780520219571; Reinhard Van Hoorickx. "Franz Schubert (1797–1828) List of the Dances in Chronological Order" in Revue belge de Musicologie/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, Vol. 25, No. 1/4, pp. 68–97, 1971; Reinhard Van Hoorickx.
"Ave Maria" is a ballad that runs for 3 minutes and 42 seconds. [8] [9] The Village Voice ' s Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond described the song as being "opera-tinted". [10]According to the sheet music published by EMI Music Publishing, it is written in the key of C Major with a slow tempo of 75 beats per minute and it is set in common time. [11]