• Title: Ave Maria
• Artist: Written by J.S. Bach & Charles Gounod
• Publisher: Stephens Development Co.
• Copyright/Release Date: 1997
• Condition: Very Good, with owner name sticker near upper left corner
• Comments: "Ave Maria" is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as "Mditation sur le Premier Prlude de Piano de S. Bach". The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of his The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1722. The 1853 publication has French text, but it is the 1859 version with the Latin Ave Maria which became popular.