![]() Mascagni's Ave Maria is an adaption of his beloved Intermezzo (a piece of music performed between two scenes or acts in an opera) from the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana. ![]() ![]() Gounod's work was originally published for violin/cello with piano and harmonium, but in 1859, after receiving a request from Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann (Gounod's future father-in-law who transcribed Gounod's improvisation) Jacques Léopold Heugel released a vocal version with the melody set to the text of the Ave Maria prayer. 1 in C Major, which Bach published in 1722 as part of "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a book of piano music Bach wrote to sell to students interested in learning and perfecting their piano technique. In 1853, French composer, Charles Gounod improvised a melody to Johann Sebastian Bach's Piano Prelude No. ![]()
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