https://conradaskland.com/blog/email-qa-who-wrote-ave-maria/ Music Director and Music Technology Sun, 05 May 2019 05:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://conradaskland.com/blog/email-qa-who-wrote-ave-maria/#comment-1228545 Sun, 05 May 2019 05:44:52 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/?p=5610#comment-1228545 Although JS Bach certainly was a devout Lutheran, he did not seem to be so vehemently opposed to composing pieces with catholic themes. In fact, it was during a later period of his career, under catholic patronage, that he wrote some of his masterpieces such as the Mass in B minor and The St. Mathew’s Passion with explicit catholic thematics.
Whether he wrote Ave Maria, it seems very unlikely that he did, but not for a matter of his faith, but simply because there’s enough evidence that Gounod created the modern adaptation based on Bach’s Prelude in C Major.

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