Ave Maria, gratia plena, 
Dominus, tecum, 
benedicta tu in mulieribus 
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. 
Sancta Maria, sancta Maria, 
Maria, ora pro nobis nobis peccatoribus, 
nunc et in hora, in hora mortis nostrae. 
Amen! Amen!

English Translation

Hail Maria
Full of grace
The Lord is with thee
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit
Of thy womb, Jesus
Holy Maria, Holy Maria
Maria, pray for us
Us sinners
Nou and in the hour
Of our death

The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod 

especially designed to be superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, 

from Book I of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, written 137 years earlier.

	Ave Maria MENU 0:00 Gounod's Ave Maria arranged for piano and cello. Performed by John Michel
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Gounod improvised the melody, and 

his future father-in-law Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann transcribed the improvisation^[1] and

 in 1853 made an arrangement for violin (or cello) with piano and harmonium. 

     구노의 아베마리아는 137년 이전에 요한 세바스치안 바흐(Johan Sebastian Bach)에 의해 작곡된

     클라비에르( 바로크 시대 음악에 주로 쓰이던 피아노의 전신)

     전주곡( Prelude) No. 1 in C major, BWV 846에서 가져왔고 

     같은해에  Alphonse de Lamartine's의 시  Le livre de la vie ("The Book of Life") 의 시를 가져다

     멜로디에 붙인것이다.

     Jacques Leopold Heugel 가 1859년에 라틴어 가사로 출판을 하였다.

The same year it appeared with the words of Alphonse de Lamartine's poem 

Le livre de la vie ("The Book of Life").^[2] 

In 1859 Jacques Leopold Heugelpublished a version with the familiar Latin text. 

The version of Bach's prelude used by Gounod includes the "Schwencke measure" (m.23), 

a measure apparently added by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke 

in an attempt to correct what he allegedly deemed a "faulty" progression,

 even though this sort of progression was standard in Bach's music.^[3]

Alongside Schubert's Ave Maria (another contrafactum), the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria

 has become a fixture at wedding masses, funerals and quinceaneras.

There are many different instrumental arrangements including for violin and guitar, string quartet, piano solo, cello, and even trombones. 

Opera singers, such as Luciano Pavarotti, as well aschoirs have recorded it hundreds of times 

during the twentieth century.

Later in his career, Gounod composed an unrelated setting of Ave Maria for a four-part SATB choir.