He used the first four measure for a prelude, repeating them for the first entry of the voice. ![]() Gounod based the work on Bach's prelude, which is a study in harmony in broken chords. Problems playing these files? See media help. Later in his career, Gounod composed an unrelated setting of Ave Maria for a four-part SATB choir. ![]() Opera singers, such as Nellie Melba, Franco Corelli and Luciano Pavarotti, as well as choirs have recorded it hundreds of times during the twentieth century. ![]() There are many different instrumental arrangements including for violin and guitar, string quartet, piano solo, cello, and even trombones. Īlongside Schubert's " Ave Maria", the Bach/Gounod "Ave Maria" has become a fixture at funerals, wedding Masses, and quinceañeras. The version of Bach's prelude used by Gounod includes the "Schwencke measure" (m.23), a measure allegedly added by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke in an attempt to correct what he or someone else erroneously deemed a "faulty" progression, even though this sort of progression was standard in Bach's music. In 1859, Jacques-Léopold Heugel published a version with the familiar Latin text. ![]() The same year it appeared with the words of Alphonse de Lamartine's poem Le livre de la vie ("The Book of Life"). 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 cello) with piano and harmonium.
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