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"Ave Maria" is a setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as "Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach ". [1] The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major , BWV 846, from ...
He composed a large amount of church music, many songs, and popular short pieces including his "Ave Maria" (an elaboration of a Bach piece) and "Funeral March of a Marionette". Born in Paris into an artistic and musical family, Gounod was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and won France's most prestigious musical prize, the Prix de Rome.
Description: 1st release date: 1930 1st recording date: unknown Place of recording: Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London (United Kingdom) Author(s)/Composer(s): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
For more Bach transcriptions by Busoni, see: List of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni#Transcriptions (BV B 20 to 115) Bach-Busoni Editions; Charles Gounod's Ave Maria is based on Prelude No. 1 of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Francisco Tárrega transcribed a variety of Bach works, including his Fugue from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
"Ave Maria", a choral setting by Johannes Brahms (1858) "Ave Maria" (Bach/Gounod) (1859), an aria by Charles Gounod, based on a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach; Ave Maria, motet by Anton Bruckner (1861) Ave Maria, WAB 7, a choral setting by Bruckner (1882) "Ave Maria", an aria by Giuseppe Verdi, from Otello (1887)
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Bach's music was transcribed and arranged to suit contemporary tastes and performance practice by composers such as Carl Friedrich Zelter, Robert Franz, and Franz Liszt, or combined with new music such as the melody line of Charles Gounod's Ave Maria.