AVE MARIA
Created on 17/09/2002Latest update on 31/05/2023
Artist: M.A. Guarini
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach/Charles Gounod
Label: Edison
Year: 1899
Covers:
- 1899:
W.D. McFarland [for Berliner]
- 1900:
R. Fournet [idem]
- 1903:
E.N. Kristmann [for Columbia]
- 1904:
Alessandro Moreschi [the last castrato, recorded at the Vatican; for 250 years castrati were prominent in Italian choirs since pope Sixtus V banned women to appear on stage in the late 16th century; the Sistine Chapel Choir was the first and the last to employ castrati; Professor Moreschi remained in service until 1913]
- 1904:
- 1905:
- 1906:
Dame Nellie Melba [on HMV]
- 1911:
- 1913:
- 1913:
- 1926:
- 1936:
- 1938:
Tino Rossi [in film Lumières de Paris]
- 1947:
- 1951:
- 1953:
Zarah Leander [in eponymous film]
- 1958:
- 1962:
- 1967:
- 1967:
- 1967:
- 1967:
Procol Harum [in Repent Walpurgis]
- 1971:
Ekseption [hit NL]
- 1974:
- 1977:
- 1980:
- 1983:
- 1987:
- 1989:
- 1989:
Piet Veerman [recorded both Ave Maria's]
- 1992:
- 1993:
Maurane [as Sur un prélude de Bach; hit Fr]
- 1993:
Lesley Garrett & Amanda Thompson [hit UK]
- 1993:
- 1996:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2001:
- 2008:
Not to be confused with Schubert's Ave Maria (see there). This melody was written by Bach in 1722 as Prélude N°1 aus das wohltemperierte Klavier and arranged by Charles Gounod in 1852 as Méditation sur le 1er prélude de piano de J.S. Bach, also known as Ave Maria.
