Ave Maria (Méditation sur… Bach) (Charles Gounod)

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  • CPDL #17675:  Network.png
Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 199 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: G major
  • CPDL #17611:  Network.png
Editor: Pierre Gouin (submitted 2008-07-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 142 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: G major (linked IMSLP site has early editions in E and F as well)

General Information

Title: Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach, aka Ave Maria, CG 89a
Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo

Genre: SacredAria

Language: Latin
Instruments: Piano

Published: 1853

Description: Gounod composed the soprano melody over J. S. Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846. Not to be confused with another Ave Maria for SATB, composed by Gounod later in his life.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ave Maria.