Ave Maria (Giuseppe Verdi)

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• (Posted 2017-07-15)  CPDL #45436: 

Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2017-07-15).  Score information: A4, 4 pages, 900 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Scanned score.

• (Posted 2016-04-15)  CPDL #39319: 

Editor: Jes Wagner (submitted 2016-04-15).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 1.17 MB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2016-02-05)  CPDL #38447:     

Editor: Alexander Reuter (submitted 2016-02-05).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Based on First Edition by Ricordi, Milano 1898

• (Posted 2015-06-17)  CPDL #35781:          (Finale 2014)

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-06-17).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 253 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2006-10-15)  CPDL #12850:   

Editor: Maximilian Albert (submitted 2006-10-15).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2002-12-03)  CPDL #04269:       

Editor: Matt Scott (submitted 2002-12-03).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Previously hosted on external site. Uploaded to CPDL server 2007-11-30.

• (Posted 2000-12-13)  CPDL #01897:      (Encore)

Editor: Marco Lucchetti (submitted 2000-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 131 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: 3 page background description is in the zipped source file

General Information

Title: Ave Maria
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898
Description:  (accompanying the edition by Marco Lucchetti): This Ave Maria was almost certainly written in 1898 as a reply to a sort of harmonic ridde proposed by Adolfo Crescentini on the “Gazzetta Musicale di Milano”. Verdi always forbid the public execution of the work, regarding it as the mere solution of a musical rebus.

Scala enigmatica armonizzata a quattro voci

Arrigo Boito obtained from Verdi the permission about publishing this piece with other three. In this way is born the “Quattro pezzi sacri” that contains Ave Maria, Stabat Mater, Laudi alla Vergine Maria and Te Deum. But after some time Verdi decided to put out his Ava Maria from the opera, so the title changed in “Tre pezzi sacri”.

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• Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.

Text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ave Maria.