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From:  John Link <johnlink@n...>
John Link <johnlink@n...>
Date:  Thu Aug 16, 2001  3:44 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Stranded on an Island


Doris, the New Jersey soprano, wrote:

>I would almost stake my life on Bach's never having
>written an Ave Maria. His first prelude in C from the
>Well Tempered Clavier, which also appears in the Anna
>Magdalena Notebook, was pilfered by Gounod and another
>melody superimposed with the Ave Maria text. I don't
>know if Gounod transposed it from C when he did that.
>I've had to sing it for a funeral, but I don't
>remember what key it was in.

I recall that Gunod also added a measure of music somewhere in the
middle. Can anyone confirm or deny my recollection?

John Link

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