Charles Gounod's Ave Maria contains a melody of the composer's own making played atop a slightly modified version of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Prelude No.1 in C Major, BWV 846', from Book I of The Well...
Aus dem Vorwort von Elmar Schloter: Zu den bedeutendsten Werken von Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) gehört ohne Zweifel die Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile aus dem Jahre 1855. Schon bei den ersten Auff...
Introducing Gounod's beloved 'Ave Maria,' based on a prelude from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, in an accessible choral arrangement. The melody passes through all voices, while well-written chora...
Singstimme und Klavier; Violine (Violoncello) ad lib.
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 Prelu...
Transcription for Harp by Karl Oberthür.
