| Ave Maria | |
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| Art song by Bach/Gounod | |
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| Native name | Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach |
| Key | C major |
| Text | Ave Maria |
| Language | Latin |
| Based on | Bach's Prelude No. 1, BWV 846 |
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"Ave Maria" is a popular and much-recorded 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 Book I of his The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1722. The 1853 publication has French text, but it is the 1859 version with the Latin Ave Maria which became popular.
- ^ "Méditation sur le 1er prélude de piano de S. Bach. CG 89a". Bibliothèque nationale de France Catalogue Général. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 28 October 2022.