"Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) 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. The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of J.S. Bach's ""The Well-Tempered Clavier"", written 137 years earlier. Gounod improvised the melody, and his future father-in-law Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann transcribed the improvisation and in 1853 made an arrangement for violin (or"
"Pierre-Louis Dietsch Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (also ""Dietch"", ""Dietzch"", ""Dietz""; 17 March 1808 – 20 February 1865) was a French composer and conductor, perhaps best remembered for the much anthologized Ave Maria 'by' Jacques Arcadelt, which he loosely arranged from that composer's three part madrigal ""Nous voyons que les hommes"". He was born Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch in Dijon. Fétis has reported that Dietsch was a choirboy at the Dijon Cathedral, and beginning in 1822 studied at Choron's ""Institution Royale de Musique Classique et Religieuse"" in Paris. In 1830 Dietsch entered the Paris Conservatory and studied with Anton Reicha. His subjects included double bass,"
"Charles Gounod Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181817 or 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his ""Ave Maria,"" based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera ""Faust"". Another opera by Gounod still performed is ""Roméo et Juliette"". Gounod died at Saint-Cloud in 1893, after a final revision of his twelve operas. His funeral took place ten days later at the Church of the Madeleine, with Camille Saint-Saëns playing the organ and Gabriel Fauré conducting. He was buried at the Cimetière d'Auteuil in Paris. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a"
"vaisseau fantôme"" has been recorded, by Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble under Marc Minkowski. Pierre-Louis Dietsch Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (also ""Dietch"", ""Dietzch"", ""Dietz""; 17 March 1808 – 20 February 1865) was a French composer and conductor, perhaps best remembered for the much anthologized Ave Maria 'by' Jacques Arcadelt, which he loosely arranged from that composer's three part madrigal ""Nous voyons que les hommes"". He was born Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch in Dijon. Fétis has reported that Dietsch was a choirboy at the Dijon Cathedral, and beginning in 1822 studied at Choron's ""Institution Royale de Musique Classique et Religieuse"" in Paris. In 1830 Dietsch"
"Prez, Orlando di Lasso, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Before the Council of Trent there were actually different versions of the text, so the earlier composers in the period sometimes set versions of the text different from the ones shown above. Josquin des Prez, for example, himself set more than one version of the Ave Maria. Here is the text of his motet Ave Maria ... Virgo serena, which begins with the first six words above and continues with a poem in rhymed couplets. The much anthologized ""Ave Maria"" by Jacques Arcadelt is actually a 19th-century arrangement by Pierre-Louis Dietsch,"
"damaged during the Siege of Paris (1870–71), when a Prussian artillery officer kicked it. Its body, head, neck, and fingerboard got scorched by fire and its back was ripped off. A friend of Gounod's found it and put it in the Museum of the Paris Opera."" Sheet music Charles Gounod Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181817 or 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his ""Ave Maria,"" based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera ""Faust"". Another opera by Gounod still performed is ""Roméo et Juliette"". Gounod died at Saint-Cloud in 1893, after"
"the late 19th century, e.g. with Giuseppe Verdi's ""Ave Maria"" in 1880 followed by his ""Laudi alla Vergine Maria"". One of the oldest Marian intonations is credited to Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-374). The Church names an ancient liturgy after him (Ambrosian Rite), which is actually older but nonetheless traditionally attributed to him. Some 870 parishes in the diocese of Milan still use the ancient Ambrosian rite. Several Ambrosian rite Marian texts were intonated, for example the famous Gaude: Marian hymns by Ambrose include the ""Confractorium"" from the Christmas liturgy and in a poetic creation of Saint Ambrose celebrating the"
"omnibus angelicis virtutibus, cujus fuit assumptio nostra glorificatio. O Mater Dei, memento mei. </poem> Full score in IMSLP Ave Maria ... Virgo serena ""Ave Maria ... Virgo serena"" is a motet composed by Josquin des Prez. It is regarded as Josquin's most famous motet and one of the most famous pieces of the 15th century. The piece rose to extreme popularity in the 16th century, even appearing at the head of the first volume of motets ever printed. Its revolutionary open style featuring early imitative counterpoint and two-voice parts has added to its acclaim as one of the most influential"
"Ave Maria (Vavilov) ""Ave Maria"" is a much-recorded aria, composed by Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. Vavilov himself published and recorded it in 1970 on the Melodiya label with the ascription ""Anonymous"". It is believed that organist Mark Shakhin, one of the performers on the ""Melodiya"" LP, first ascribed the work to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, and gave the ""newly-discovered scores"" to other musicians. The organist Oleg Yanchenko then made an arrangement of the aria for a recording by Irina Arkhipova in 1987, after which the piece came to be famous worldwide. It bears a resemblance to Jerome Kern's 1939"
"their own composers. A totally unknown Father Valentin Rathgeber, OSB, (1682–1750) wrote 43 Masses, 164 offertories, 24 concerts, and 44 Marian antiphones. ""Missa de Beata Virgine"" and the Messe de Nostre Dame are examples of individual contributions. Monteverdi's ""Vespro della Beata Vergine"" has remained structurally unchanged for the past 1500 years. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed in honour of the Virgin Mary Latin Masses and several shorter operas. Other known classic composers with Marian compositions mainly in Latin include Orlando di Lasso and Franz Schubert. In 12th century France the tradition began of Christmas dramas, in which the nativity events are"
"Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his ""Pavane"", Requiem, ""Sicilienne"", nocturnes for piano and the songs ""Après un rêve"" and ""Clair de lune"". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style. Fauré was born into a"
"Claude Paris Claude Paris (19 September 1808 in Lyon – 25 July 1866) was a 19th-century French composer. Paris studied musical composition with Jean-François Lesueur at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1826 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ""Herminie"". During his stay in Rome he performed the opéra bouffe ""L'Allogio militaire"" at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in 1829. After his return to Paris in 1830, his ""Missa da Requiem"" was performed at the church Notre-Dame-des-Victoires. In 1831, the annual meeting of the ""Académie royale des Beaux-Art"" was opened with a performance of the"
"""All the Things You Are"". Ave Maria (Vavilov) ""Ave Maria"" is a much-recorded aria, composed by Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. Vavilov himself published and recorded it in 1970 on the Melodiya label with the ascription ""Anonymous"". It is believed that organist Mark Shakhin, one of the performers on the ""Melodiya"" LP, first ascribed the work to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, and gave the ""newly-discovered scores"" to other musicians. The organist Oleg Yanchenko then made an arrangement of the aria for a recording by Irina Arkhipova in 1987, after which the piece came to be famous worldwide. It bears a"
"Ave Maria ... Virgo serena ""Ave Maria ... Virgo serena"" is a motet composed by Josquin des Prez. It is regarded as Josquin's most famous motet and one of the most famous pieces of the 15th century. The piece rose to extreme popularity in the 16th century, even appearing at the head of the first volume of motets ever printed. Its revolutionary open style featuring early imitative counterpoint and two-voice parts has added to its acclaim as one of the most influential compositions of its time. The work was composed during Josquin's service at the North Italian court at Milan."
"Ave Maria (Schubert) ""'"" (""'"", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: ""Ellen's Third Song"", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Opus 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's popular epic poem ""The Lady of the Lake"", loosely translated into German. It has become one of Schubert's most popular works, recorded by a wide variety and large number of singers, under the title of Ave Maria (after Ellen's song, which is a prayer to the Virgin Mary), in arrangements with various lyrics which commonly differ from the original context of the"
"litigation. Gounod had lodged with Weldon and her husband in London's Tavistock House. He performed publicly many times with Ferdinando de Cristofaro, a mandolin virtuoso living in Paris. Gounod was said to take pleasure in accompanying Cristofaro's mandolin compositions with piano. Later in his life Gounod returned to his early religious impulses, writing much sacred music. His ""Pontifical Anthem"" (""Marche Pontificale"", 1869) eventually (1949) became the official national anthem of Vatican City. He expressed a desire to compose his ""Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc"" (1887) while kneeling on the stone on which Joan of Arc knelt at the"
"throughout the world who see in Rome the See of Peter."" The music was composed in 1869 by Charles Gounod, for the celebration on April 11, 1869 of Pope Pius IX's golden jubilee of priestly ordination. The purely instrumental piece in three parts, originally called ""Marche pontificale"" (French for ""Pontifical March""), became extremely popular from its first performance. On October 16, 1949, Pope Pius XII declared it the papal anthem, replacing Viktorin Hallmayer's ""Marcia trionfale"" (1857), which, being still the papal anthem when the Vatican City State was founded in 1929, had been treated also as the new state's anthem."
"Louis Aubert Louis François Marie Aubert (19 February 1877 – 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Born in Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Louis Aubert was a child prodigy. His parents, recognizing their son's musical talent, sent him to Paris to receive an education at an early age. He became recognised for his voice, primarily for his renditions of the ""Pie Jesu"" from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem at the Église de la Madeleine. The young Aubert met Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and he regularly attended at his composition classes, which greatly influenced his development. Aubert became an excellent pianist. In 1911, he"
"Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets ""Giselle"" (1841) and ""Le corsaire"" (1856, his last work), his operas ""Le postillon de Lonjumeau"" (1836), ""Le toréador"" (1849) and ""Si j'étais roi"" (1852) Adolphe Adam was born in Paris, to Jean-Louis Adam (1758–1848), who was a prominent Alsatian composer, as well a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His mother was the daughter of a physician. As a child, Adolphe Adam preferred to improvise music"
"during her 60-year teaching career, including the Maison-Mère Mont-Ste-Anne in Lachine and the École de musique Wilfrid-Pelletier in Montreal. She died in Montreal in 1971 at the age of 81. Lydia Boucher Lydia Boucher (28 February 1890 – 5 March 1971) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and nun. She was active as a composer from 1923–1971, producing several choral works and pieces for solo piano and organ. Most of her works are sacred and many of them were published by such companies as L'Édition Belgo-Canadienne, Musica Enrégistré, and Éditions canadiennes. Her first composition was ""Ave Maria"" (1923) and her"
"hour of our death"") added. The Hail Mary, or Ave Maria in Latin, has been set to music numerous times. Arguably the two most famous settings are: Anton Bruckner wrote three different settings, the best known being a motet for seven voices. Antonín Dvořák's version was composed in 1877. Another setting of Ave Maria was written by Giuseppe Verdi for his 1887 opera ""Otello"". Russian composer César Cui, who was raised Roman Catholic, set the text at least three times: as the ""Ave Maria"", op. 34, for one or two women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886), and as part"
"earlier. Antoine de Bertrand Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits. He was murdered by Protestants during the French Wars of Religion. Details of his life are relatively scanty for an otherwise prominent composer of the period, probably because he never held a salaried position as a musician at an establishment whose records have survived. He was born at Fontanges, in Auvergne, and"
"Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris, ""The Bells of St. Genevieve"" in English, is a work by Marin Marais written in 1723 for viol, violin and harpsichord with basso continuo. It can be considered a passacaglia or a chaconne, with a repeating D, F, E bass line. It is perhaps Marais' most famous composition that explores the various techniques of the viol, an instrument he studied as a student of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. The work begins with 4 measures of the bass line played by the continuo and viol, then, on the"
"Immaculate Mary Immaculate Mary or Immaculate Mother (French: Ô Vierge Marie) is a popular Roman Catholic Marian hymn. It is also known as the Lourdes Hymn, a term which also refers to the melody alone. It is often sung in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The earliest version of the hymn was written in 1873 by French priest and seminary director Jean Gaignet, for pilgrims to the site of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes. It was set to a traditional French tune and contained 8 verses; he later expanded it to 120 verses."
"Antoine de Bertrand Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits. He was murdered by Protestants during the French Wars of Religion. Details of his life are relatively scanty for an otherwise prominent composer of the period, probably because he never held a salaried position as a musician at an establishment whose records have survived. He was born at Fontanges, in Auvergne, and from"
"Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the ""Four Seasons"". Many of his compositions were written for the"
"Renard (1864-1910); Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891); Romain Rolland (1866-1944); Edmond Rostand (1868-1918); and Paul Verlaine (1844-1890). Paris was also the home of one of the greatest Russian writers of the period, Ivan Turgenev. Paris composers during the period had a major impact on European music, moving it away from romanticism toward impressionism in music and modernism. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was born in Paris and admitted to the Paris Conservatory when he was thirteen. When he finished the Conservatory, he became organist at the church of Saint-Merri, and later at La Madeleine. His most famous works included the ""Danse Macabre"", the opera"
"Giselle Galos Giselle Galos, commonly known as C. Galos, (sometimes misspelled Galas), was an obscure 19th century Italian or French musician and composer who is responsible for composing two popular pieces of salon music, 'Le chant du Berger' (Nocturne Op. 17) and 'Le Lac de Come' (Nocturne Op. 24). Both pieces are in the form of easy nocturnes. Galos' pieces are composed of stock salon clichés and often appear in collections of famous piano pieces. Galos did not perform in public and her music was typically published under the pseudonym C. Galos. For many years there was debate regarding whether"
"Auguste Blondeau Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau (15 October 1786 [the given date is often 15 August 1784] – 14 April 1863) was a 19th-century French composer, violinist, music theorist and historian. Born in Paris the son of Jean-Claude Blondeau, violinist and composer, Blondeau was a pupil of Pierre Baillot. He won a mention at the Prix de Rome in 1807 and in 1808 was awarded the first Grand Prix of Rome in musical composition with his cantata ""Marie Stuart"". He resided at the Villa Medicis in Rome from 1809 to 1811. He composed religious works, including a ""Te Deum"" in honour of"
"on a poem written by M. Cappeau de Roquemaure. Adam subsequently crafted a melody for the poem that was translated into English by John Sullivan Dwight (1813 - 1893), a Boston music teacher and music journalist, as well as co-founder of The Harvard Music Society. Adam is buried in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets ""Giselle"" (1841) and ""Le corsaire"" (1856, his last work), his operas ""Le"
"Jean Gabriel-Marie Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852, Paris – 29 August 1928, Puigcerdà, Girona, Spain) was a French romantic composer and conductor. Gabriel Mari was born in Paris on January 8,1852, where he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and held a prominent position in the local musical world. He died unexpectedly on August 29, 1928. He was the father of the composer Jean Gabriel-Mari. Gabriel Mari's works include ""La Cinquantaine"" (""The Golden Marriage"", 1887) for cello and piano, for octet, and in various other arrangements. He also composed many dance pieces, notably the waltz ""Sous les firnes"""
"overture to his lyrical tragedy ""Elmyra"". Paris composed the opéra comique ""La veillée"" for the Paris Opera (Salle Ventadour). Paris worked as a conductor at the Théâtre du Panthéon and taught in Paris and Lyon. Claude Paris Claude Paris (19 September 1808 in Lyon – 25 July 1866) was a 19th-century French composer. Paris studied musical composition with Jean-François Lesueur at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1826 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ""Herminie"". During his stay in Rome he performed the opéra bouffe ""L'Allogio militaire"" at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in 1829."
"Ave maris stella Ave maris stella (Latin for ""Hail Star of the Sea"") is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary from about the eighth century. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages and has been used by many composers as the basis of other compositions. The creation of the original hymn has been attributed to several people, including Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century), Saint Venantius Fortunatus (6th century) and Hermannus Contractus (11th century). The text is found in 9th-century manuscripts, kept in Vienna and in the Abbey of Saint Gall. Its frequent occurrence in the Divine Office made it"