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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Okay, I'm confused. But I'm sure that at least one MobileReader can help clear it up.
Today's free piece from YourClassical is called Ave Maria. There must be must at least two different pieces by this name, because this piece sounds nothing like the song that I know as "Ave Marie," of which the instrumental portion I believe may have been composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (IMHO, Luciano Pavarotti does an outstanding job of singing it in the modern day; the Il Volo trio does a fine job of singing it, too (what ever happened to them, anyway? I never hear anything about them anymore)).
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Since Ave Maria is Latin for "Hail Mary,"
and the name of a
Catholic prayer, there's likely a
lot more than two pieces written that have that name. In this case the piece is by
Jean Mouton, a French composer of the Renaissance. Mouton is famous for his motets, this piece being an example of one.
And yeah, it's
significantly different than Bach's version.
