The Ave Maria

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Title: Ave Maria Composer: Gounod, Charles Arranger: Dewagtere, Bernard Copyright: Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard Instrumentation: Pan Flute, piano or organ Style: Wedding music Comment: The Bach/Gounod Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text Ave Maria. Written by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod in 1859, his Ave Maria consists of a melody superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846), composed by J. S. Bach some 137 years earlier. (Gounod adds one bar so as to smooth out a rough change in harmony in the prelude.) Wikipedia