Who wrote the lyrics to Ave Maria?

Answer 1

It is complicated. There are two popular versions of the song. The latin version is actually the Catholic Hail Mary set to music of Franz Schubert's "Ellens dritter Gesang" written in 1825. Schubert's original song, sung in German, was actually Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lady of the Lake" translated into German by Adam Storck and set to the melody that Schubert wrote for it.

So if it sounds like Latin, you could be listening to a composition by Schubert OR by Charles Gounod written in 1859 and based on Johann Sebastian Bach's first prelude from the Well Tempered Clavier. Either way, the words are as follows:

Ave Maria, gratia plena,

Maria, gratia plena,

Maria, gratia plena,

Ave, Ave, Dominus,

Dominus tecum.

Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus,

Et benedictus fructus ventris (tui),

Ventris tui, Jesus.

Ave Maria!

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,

Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,

Ora, ora pro nobis;

Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus,

Nunc et in hora mortis,

In hora mortis nostrae.

In hora, hora mortis nostrae,

In hora mortis nostrae.

Ave Maria!

In English it is the following:

Hail Mary, full of grace,

Mary, full of grace,

Mary, full of grace,

Hail, Hail, the Lord

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women, and blessed,

Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,

Thy womb, Jesus.

Ave Maria!

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Pray for us sinners,

Pray, pray for us;

Pray for us sinners,

Now, and at the hour of our death,

The hour of our death.

The hour, the hour of our death,

The hour of our death.

Ave Maria!

If it is in German, then you are listening to Franz Schubert's original, which is this:

Ave Maria! Jungfrau mild,

Erhöre einer Jungfrau Flehen,

Aus diesem Felsen starr und wild

Soll mein Gebet zu dir hin wehen.

Wir schlafen sicher bis zum Morgen,

Ob Menschen noch so grausam sind.

O Jungfrau, sieh der Jungfrau Sorgen,

O Mutter, hör ein bittend Kind!

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! Unbefleckt!

Wenn wir auf diesen Fels hinsinken

Zum Schlaf, und uns dein Schutz bedeckt

Wird weich der harte Fels uns dünken.

Du lächelst, Rosendüfte wehen

In dieser dumpfen Felsenkluft,

O Mutter, höre Kindes Flehen,

O Jungfrau, eine Jungfrau ruft!

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! Reine Magd!

Der Erde und der Luft Dämonen,

Von deines Auges Huld verjagt,

Sie können hier nicht bei uns wohnen,

Wir woll'n uns still dem Schicksal beugen,

Da uns dein heil'ger Trost anweht;

Der Jungfrau wolle hold dich neigen,

Dem Kind, das für den Vater fleht.

Ave Maria!

And in English would be:

Ave Maria! maiden mild!

Listen to a maiden's prayer!

Thou canst hear though from the wild;

Thou canst save amid despair.

Safe may we sleep beneath thy care,

Though banish'd, outcast and reviled -

Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer;

Mother, hear a suppliant child!

Ave Maria

Ave Maria! undefiled!

The flinty couch we now must share

Shall seem this down of eider piled,

If thy protection hover there.

The murky cavern's heavy air

Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled;

Then, Maiden! hear a maiden's prayer,

Mother, list a suppliant child!

Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! stainless styled.

Foul demons of the earth and air,

From this their wonted haunt exiled,

Shall flee before thy presence fair.

We bow us to our lot of care,

Beneath thy guidance reconciled;

Hear for a maid a maiden's prayer,

And for a father hear a child!

Ave Maria.

Answer 2

There are several versions of this song to the Virgin Mary but the best known are those by Schubert and the one by Bach/Gounod. There is also a beautil version, Ave Maria, dolce Maria which is less well known but quite exquisite, by Vittoriano Benvenuti. The Bach/Gounod version is based on the first prelude, C Major, from the first book of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier.

Answer 3

Ave Maria (Schubert; Opus 52, No. 6) by Franz Schubert

Answer 4

There are many versions of the Ave Maria. The most common are the ones composed by either

• Gounod-Bach
• Schubert

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Franz Schubert

Answer 7

franz peter schubert

Answer 8

Charles-François Gounod.

Answer 9

Shubert