For Violin and Piano
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.978474
Arranged by Endre Granat.
LKM Music. Classical,
General Worship, Sacred.
Softcover. Lauren Keiser
Music Publishing
#S511046. Published by
Lauren Keiser Music
Publishing (HL.978474).
ISBN 9781638871361.
UPC: 196288090922.
9.0x12.0x0.102
inches.
This one of
a kind album pairs two of
the most performed Ave
Maria's for violin and
piano, meticulously
edited by Jascha Heifetz'
protege, Endre Granat.
The first of these is
Schubert's melody, which
was originally composed
as a setting of a song
from Walter Scott's
popular narrative poem
The Lady of the Lake,
titled, “Ellen's Third
Song” (Ellens dritter
Gesang). The opening
words and refrain of
Ellen's song, namely
“Ave Maria” (Latin
for “Hail Mary”), may
have led to the idea of
adapting Schubert's
melody as a setting for
the full text of the
traditional Roman
Catholic prayer. The
Latin version of the song
is now so frequently used
with Schubert's melody
that it has led to the
misconception that he
originally wrote the
melody as a setting for
the “Ave Maria.” The
second Ave Maria in this
collection was created
when Gounod famously
improvised the melody
over the background of
J.S. Bach's Prelude No. 1
in C major, BWV 846, from
The Well-Tempered
Clavier. Gounod's
beatiful improvisation
was transcribed by his
future father-in-law
Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume
Zimmermann, which was
published with the Bach
keyboard accompaniment in
1835 under the title
“Méditation sur le
Premier Prélude de Piano
de S. Bach.” Alongside
Schubert's version, the
Bach/Gounod Ave Maria has
become a fixture at
funerals, wedding masses,
and quinceañeras. Both
works have been recorded
hundreds of times during
the twentieth
century.
