Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod especially designed to be superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, written some 137 years earlier. Although published in instrumental versions and fitted to various texts during Gounod's lifetime, the claim that he never 'wrote' it appears to be literally true.

Alongside Schubert's Ave Maria, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria has become a fixture at wedding masses, funerals and quinceañeras. There are many different instrumental arrangements including for violin and guitar, string quartet, piano solo, cello, and even trombones. Performers, such as Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Anna Moffo, José Carreras, Andre Rieu, Bobby McFerrin, Celtic Woman as well as choirs have recorded it hundreds of times during the twentieth century. Jackie Evancho sang it on AGT Finals. It's also in Hayley Westenra's album, River of Dreams.


Ave Maria gratia plena
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus

Sancta Maria, sancta Maria, Maria
Ora pro nobis, nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora, in hora mortis nostrae
Amen



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