CD: AVE MARIA BY ORIGEN

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The first track on this album is Ave Maria which usually attributed to Giulio Caccini. It is the biggest musical hoax. Actually it was composed and first performed by Russian guitarist, lutenist and composer Vladimir Vavilov (1925-1973). In 1970 Vavilov recorded and publish this song on the album “Lute Music of the XVI-XVII centuries” on the Russian Melodia label with the song attribution to “Anonymous”. Almost all songs on this album were composed by Vladimir Vavilov and ascribed to composers of Baroque era. The reason for such a hoax was banal. At that time it was impossible to imagine that the major Russian label will release the music of unknown soviet composer. As Vavilove’s daughter Tamara mentioned "My father was convinced that the self-taught works of unknown composer with a trivial name "Vavilov" will never be published. But he really wanted his music reached the audience and he went so far as to give all the glory to the medieval composers and "unknown authors."

Schubert's Ave Maria was composed in 1825. Originally Ave Maria song was titled “Ellens dritter Gesang” (Ellen's third song). The words to Ave Maria song were taken from Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake and Adam Storck wrote the German translation Schubert used for his Ave Maria song. The person who first set the Latin lyrics to Schubert's Ave Maria song remains a mystery to this day.

Ave Maria, Bach -Gounod version
In 1853 Ch. Gounod made variation on the 1st prelude of Bach 's "Well-tempered Clavier" for violin and piano and six years later the words to Ave Maria song were added and this made Bach- Gounod version so popular.

Ave Maria Lyrics in Latin

Ave Maria Lyrics in English

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