Meditation about the first Prelude C major from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" by J.S. Bach
Charles Gounod's Ave Maria contains a melody of the composer's own making played atop a slightly modified version of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Prelude No.1 in C Major, BWV 846', from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Presented in this edition are the scores for violin and piano, or cello and piano.