Format : Vocal Score
SKU: HL.51481639
UPC: 196288215851. 8.25x11.75x0.074 inches.
Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He first published instrumental versions of it under the title âMéditationâ, then tried fitting various texts to the melody until in 1859 he arrived at the definitive vocal version using the text of the Ave Maria. Already by the 1890s it was claimed that â[we] have heard this sweet melody innumerable times from the best lady singersâ, and its popularity has continued to the present day. Reason enough, then, for Henle Verlag to publish an Urtext edition of this worldwide hit, based on the sources and with appropriate critical commentary. In 1859, at the same time as the original edition for high voice, editions for middle and low voice, presumably commissioned by the publishers, were also issued. Following this model, the Henle Urtext edition of âAve Mariaâ is also offered in two transpositions for the lower register.
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SKU: HL.49019234
ISBN 9790001187220. UPC: 884088907563. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches. German.
Again and again, there happen to be possibilities to bring early and previously unpublished music by B. A. Zimmermann to light - as is the case with this 'Song of Abelone' on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke which Zimmermann set to music in 1939. The recording of all songs of the composer is now followed by a printed edition - an interesting insight into the early 'composition workshop' of Zimmermann.
SKU: HL.14002346
ISBN 9788759853863. 8.25x11.75x0.067 inches.
A setting of the Ave Maria by Swedish composer Otto Olsson, scored for Medium voice with Violin and Organ accompaniment.
SKU: HL.49008559
ISBN 9790001087216. UPC: 884088059156. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.
For medium voice and piano.
