![]() The musical settings of this prayer are too numerous to mention, and to refer specifically to one composer's work as 'the Ave Maria' tends to lend the impression that only they have set it, or even that they (or their librettist) wrote the prayer itself. Although the prayer is thought of as quintessentially Roman, it does in fact get some limited use in other traditions. The prayer forms part of longer meditations such as Angelus Domini and the Rosary, as well as being used as a general-purpose prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic church. ![]() The lyrics are a loose German translation by Adam Storck of a part of the epic English poem The Lady of. The usual English text is:Īnd blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Ave Maria was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825. That's as I learned it by heart at secondary school. The evident Mariolatry of the second part is coherent with this later dating, and the spelling 'Jesu' rather than 'Iesu' is late, too. Contributions: 1157 translations, 9 transliterations, 265 songs, 1 collection, 1352 thanks received, 22 translation requests fulfilled for 13 members, 7. The text is medieval, although the first portion, down to '.ventris tui, Jesu.' is very early, while the latter portion is later. Translation of Schwanengesang by Franz Schubert from German to English. 'Ave Maria' is the Latin prayer commonly translated into English as ' Hail Mary'. Despite being one of the world’s favourite settings of ‘Ave Maria’, Schubert never actually wrote a piece called ‘Ave Maria’. These lyrics are from the Schubert version, which I find to be the best-known and most recognizable Ave. ![]() The Ave has been put to music by a number of composers, including Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Mozart, Charles Gounod, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi, and Sergei Rachmaninov, to name some of the most notable. A line by line translation (as nearly as I can figure it):
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