A week before Christmas I heard soprano Renée Fleming's angelic rendition of Schubert's Ave Maria, and the song has been lingering in memory ever since. Wow can she sing.
Through the miracle of YouTube I found it again:
There are other renditions here.
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The Ave Maria was composed in about 1825 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) when he was twenty-eight years old and filled with devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was written for voice and piano and first Published in 1826 as Op 52 no 6. The words most commonly used with Schubert’s music are not the words that the composer originally set to music. Franz Schubert actually wrote the music for an excerpt from the poem “The Lady of the Lake” by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), which was translated into German by Adam Storck...
The composer died young at the age of 31. After his death Latin lyrics were replaced on the song for performance in a liturgical setting. The composer’s name was Franz Schubert, and “Ellen’s Song Number Three” is known to us today as “Ave Maria”.Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum;
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus [Christus].
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Ave Maria, Mater Dei, Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
Ora, ora pro nobis, Ora ora pronobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis, in hora mortis nostrae,
in hora mortis, mortis nostrae, in hora mortis nostrae,
Ave Maria.
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