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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