Ave Maria
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Schubert's setting
The words are often sung to a musical setting by Franz Schubert. Curiously, although his original song was inspired by his devotion, it was not entitled Ave Maria, but Ellens dritter Gesang (Ellen's third song), and was a setting for a German translation of a portion The Lady of the Lake, a long poem by Sir Walter Scott. In the original, Scott's heroine is praying to the Virgin Mary, and opens her plea with the phrase "Ave Maria," but continues in her own words:
Ave Maria! maiden mild!
Listen to a maiden's prayer!
Thou canst hear though from the wild,
Thou canst save amid despair.[1]
Notes and references
- ↑ The Lady of the Lake, Project Gutenberg etext