Ave Maria (Giuseppe Verdi)
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- Editor: Maximilian Albert (submitted 2006-10-15). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 52 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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- CPDL #4269: Sibelius
- Editor: Matt Scott (submitted 2002-12-03). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 69 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Marco Lucchetti (submitted 2000-12-13). Score information: 136 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Ave Maria
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
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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Text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Ave Maria.
