Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

The Ave Maria "Bach / Gounod " is one of the most famous pieces of classical music. It was established in 1852 by the French composer Charles Gounod composed as Méditation sur le premier prelude de Bach and 1859 backed by the text of the Latin prayer Ave Maria. It grew out of an improvisation exercise during his studies.

The work is based on the Prelude No. 1 in C major from JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier ( BWV 846 ), a harmonic study of broken chords. Gounod took the set largely unchanged. The first four bars, a C - major cadence, he put forward as a prelude to then be repeated with the use of its melody. Behind the original measure 22 he began an added Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke clock that mediates between the two diminished sevenths and the vocal room for one more expressive " Maria! " Creates. Next he added a tempo marking ( Moderato ), pedal markings for the piano, and dynamic terms. About the thus obtained accompaniment, he continued his own tune with the prayer text.

This Gounod stands in the long line of composers who approach Bach, by acting as a basis for their own compositions using his works ( other examples are the Ten Preludes by the Well-Tempered Piano Opus 137a for cello and piano by Ignaz Moscheles or the Fantasia Contrappuntistica of Ferruccio Busoni ).

Thus, the hybrid composition is a combination represents from the harmonious development and the pattern of movement of Bach's Prelude, which is relegated to merely accompaniment, and Gounod's melody with its wide tonal range and its wide-ranging dynamics, which urges the result stylistically strong in the romantic idiom. As a composer is here mostly " Bach / Gounod " given - even to distinguish the composition as his own production of Gounod's Ave Maria setting.

Reception

The factory enjoys great popularity until today especially among people who otherwise have little access to classical music. Thus, numerous edits for virtually every conceivable combination of instruments have been created in addition to the original version for piano and vocals to this day. In particular, many pop musicians and soloists have included the piece in their repertoire.

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