Medium Voice; Piano Accompaniment (Medium Voice) SKU: HL.51481639
Version for Medium Male Voice and Piano. Composed by Charles Francois Gounod. Edited by Gé and rard Condé. Henle Music Folios. Classical, Vocal. Softcover. 10 pages. G. Henle #HN1639. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481639). UPC: 196288215851. 8.25x11.75x0.074 inches.
Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He first published instrumental versions of it under the title âMéditationâ, then tried fitting various texts to the melody until in 1859 he arrived at the definitive vocal version using the text of the Ave Maria. Already by the 1890s it was claimed that â[we] have heard this sweet melody innumerable times from the best lady singersâ, and its popularity has continued to the present day. Reason enough, then, for Henle Verlag to publish an Urtext edition of this worldwide hit, based on the sources and with appropriate critical commentary. In 1859, at the same time as the original edition for high voice, editions for middle and low voice, presumably commissioned by the publishers, were also issued. Following this model, the Henle Urtext edition of âAve Mariaâ is also offered in two transpositions for the lower register.
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