Ave Maria gratia plena
Dominus tecum. 
[Benedicta]1 tu in mulieribus, 
Et benedictus [fructus ventris]2 [tui]3 Jesus.
Sancta [Maria, Mater Dei]4,
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
[Ave Maria]5.

G. Rossini sets line 1 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
G. Holst sets lines 1-6, 9
J. Ockeghem sets stanza 1
Josquin des Prez sets stanza 1 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information
Josquin des Prez sets stanza 1 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information

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See also Geert Cuypers's very informative Ave Maria Songs website.

Note: used as the basis for an acrostic in Marchetto da Padova's Ave Regina Celorum / Mater innocentie

¹ Móry: "Oh Maria benedicta"
² Guarnieri, Nepomuceno, Villa-Lobos: "fructus"
³ Krenn: "tuis"
⁴ Gounod, Holst, Móry, Rossini: "Maria"
⁵ Cherubini, Cserny, Guarnieri, Holst, Jackson, Krenn, Kuula, Massenet, Mompou, Móry, Nepomuceno, Pejačević, Rheinberger, Rossini, Simon, Vermeulen, Vermin, Villa-Lobos: "Amen"; Jakobey: "Amen. Ave Maria."

Text Authorship:

• by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "Ave Maria", Luke 1, 28 & 42; Breviarium Romanum (1568) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Jehan Ariste Alain (1911 - 1940), "Vocalise dorienne", subtitle: "Ave Maria", AWV.93, JA.95 [ voice and organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Elsa Barraine (1910 - 1999), "Ave Maria" [ women's chorus and organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Johann Gottfried) Heinrich Bellermann (1832 - 1903), "Ave Maria gratia plena", op. 7, published 1865 [ soprano and piano? ], Berlin, Trautwein  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mel Bonis (1858 - 1937), "Ave Maria", published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], Édition Eugène Demets [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Ave Maria", op. 12 (1855), orchestrated 1859 [ women's chorus, organ, and woodwinds ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Joseph) Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896), "Ave Maria", WAB. 6 (1861), published 1887 [ SAATTBB chorus a cappella ], Vienna, Emil Wetzler [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Joseph) Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896), "Ave Maria", WAB. 7 (1882), published 1927 [ alto, piano, and organ or harmonium ], Augsburg and Vienna: Anton Böhm & Sohn [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Joseph) Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896), "Ave Maria", WAB. 5 (1856), published 1893 [ soprano, alto, chorus, organ, and cello ], Innsbruck: Johann Gross [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924), "Ave Maria", op. 1 (1877) [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Pauline Canissa-Fischer , "Ave Maria gratia plena", published 1886 [ soprano and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
• by Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842), "Ave Maria (Offertorium)" [ soprano, clarinet and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Joseph Comellas , "Ave Maria", op. 14, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Andras Cserny (b. 1990), "Ave Maria", op. 4 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882 - 1943), "Ave Maria" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921), "Ave Maria" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Charles Gustave) Alban Cocural Dorcy (1856 - 1931), "Ave Maria", published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. q18, Éd. V. Durdilly & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Dufresne (1822 - 1863), "Ave Maria" [ medium voice and piano ], from Les soirées d'automne, douze mélodies, no. 12, Paris, Éditions E. Heu [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971), "Ave Maria", op. 9 no. 3 [ chorus ], from Quatre Motets, no. 3, motet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Ave Maria", op. 43 (Drei Gesänge für dreistimmige Frauenchor mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1875 [ three-part women's chorus and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Ave Maria", op. 67 no. 2 (1894-1895) [ voice and piano or organ ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Ave Maria (Chant religieux)", published 1893? [ high voice and piano or organ ], from Vingt mélodies, 1ère volume, no. 19, Paris, Colombier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Constanza Geiger (b. 1836), "Ave Maria", published 1856? [ soprano, SATB chorus, organ or harmonium ], Hamburg : Aug. Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Ave Maria" [ high voice and piano ], note: melody adapted from the first Prelude of J. S. Bach; See הודייה for a non-sectarian Hebrew text that can be sung to this melody [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907 - 1993), "Ave Maria", 1973 [ voice and organ or piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Richard de Guide (1909 - 1962), "Ave Maria", op. 14 no. 1 (1940) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Ave Maria", op. 9b, H. 49, lines 1-6,9 [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Maia de Carvalho Najla Jabor (1915 - 2001), "Ave Maria" [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Casa Viúva Guerreiro [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962), "Ave Maria", first performed 2004 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Márton Jakobey (b. 1976), "Ave Maria" [  SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Maria Cecilia Nathalie Janotha (1856 - 1932), "Ave Maria", op. 13, published 1899 [ voice, organ, violin and harp ], London : E. Ashdown; there are three songs in this set, all with the same title but with different instrumentation [sung text not yet checked]
• by Maria Cecilia Nathalie Janotha (1856 - 1932), "Ave Maria", op. 5, published 1894 [ chorus or solo, piano or organ ], London: C. Ascherberg & Co [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Krenn (1816 - 1897), "Ave Maria", op. 33 (1850) [ soprano chorus and string quartet ], confirmed with the manuscript in Huldigung der Tonsetzer Wiens an Ihre Majestät die allerdurchlauchtigste Frau Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Kaiserin von Österreich, Königin von Ungarn und Böhmen etc. Überreicht von der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde des österreichischen Kaiserstaates 1854 held in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Toivo Kuula (1883 - 1918), "Ave Maria", op. 23 (Neljä laulua) no. 2 (1912) [ voice and piano ], also set in Finnish (Suomi) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Ave Maria", op. 141 (Vier Gesänge für drei Männerstimmen (Solostimmen oder Chor)) no. 4, published 1870 [ 2 tenors, 1 bass a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Lefebvre (1843 - 1917), "Ave Maria", published [1900] [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt Mélodies en trois volumes, no. 3, Paris, Éd. A. Noël [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alonso Lobo (c1555 - 1617), "Ave Maria" [ chorus ], motet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Ave Maria", 1915-17 [ voice and piano ], from Corona carminum sacrorum, no. 1, Москва ( Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daan Manneke (b. 1939), "Fructus for Sytze", 1998, published 2003, copyright © 2002 [ counter-tenor and drone ], Sytze = Sytze BuwaldaAmsterdam: Donemus/ MuziekGroep Nederland [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Ave Maria" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Ave Maria", from Drei Kirchenmusiken, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Amélia de Mesquita (1866 - 1954), "Ave Maria", op. 24 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "Ave Maria" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ján Móry (1892 - 1978), "Ave Maria", op. 13 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Ave Maria", 1911 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Arthur Napoleão [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Laura Constance Netzel (1839 - 1927), "Ave Maria", op. 41, copyright © 1894 [ voice and organ or piano ], Warmuth, Christiania, also set in Swedish (Svenska) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "Ave Maria gratia plena", stanza 1 [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Henrique José Pedro Maria Carlos Luis Oswald (1852 - 1931), "Ave Maria", 1872 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Dora Pejačević (1885 - 1923), "Ave Maria", op. 16 [ voice, violin, and organ or piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Antônio Sá Pereira (1888 - 1966), "Ave Maria" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Ave Maria" [ medium voice and piano or organ ], Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by María Teresa Prieto (1910 - 1982), "Ave Maria" [ voice and piano or organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Rudolf Radecke (1829 - 1893), "Ave Maria", op. 10 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Antônio de Assis Republicano (1897 - 1960), "Ave Maria" [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Casa Oliveira [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (1839 - 1901), "Ave Maria", op. 157 no. 6 (1888) [ low voice and organ or piano ], from Sechs religiöse Gesänge, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Ave Maria" [ chorus and organ ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol III: Morceaux réservés, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Un rien (pour album)", line 1 [ voice and piano ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol XIV: Altri Péchés de vieillesse, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Ave Maria", 2021, copyright © 2021, first performed 2021 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz (August Julius) Schreker (1878 - 1934), "Ave Maria", 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus der Reifezeit, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz (August Julius) Schreker (1878 - 1934), "Ave Maria", 1909, published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder aus der Reifezeit, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Schweizer (1868 - 1906), "Ave Maria", op. 8 (Vier Lieder) no. 2, published 1896 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Yulyevich Simon (1850 - 1916), "Ave Maria", op. 14 no. 3, from Vingt mélodies (Двадцать мелодий), no. 13, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Glauco Velasquez (1883 - 1914), "Ave Maria (1a.)", op. 5 (1908), published 1918 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Vieira Machado [sung text not yet checked]
• by Matthijs Vermeulen (1888 - 1967), "De l'aube", 1941, first performed 1964 [ soprano and piano ], from Trois Salutations à Notre-Dame, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Matthijs Vermeulen (1888 - 1967), "De midi", 1941, first performed 1964 [ soprano and piano ], from Trois Salutations à Notre-Dame, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Matthijs Vermeulen (1888 - 1967), "Du soir", 1941, first performed 1964 [ soprano and piano ], from Trois Salutations à Notre-Dame, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Victor Vermin (1903 - 1976), "Ave Maria" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Solon Verrett (1912 - 1992), "Ave Maria (Méditation)" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Solon Verrett (1912 - 1992), "Ave Maria (Prière)" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fructuoso de Lima Vianna (1896 - 1976), "Ave Maria", 1966 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959), "Ave Maria", W. 058, published 1998 [ medium voice and piano or organ or string quartet ], Rio de Janeiro: Editora Arthur Napoleão Ltda [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (b. 1930), "Ave Maria", 1996 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joel Weiss , "Ave Maria ", 1995 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Ave Maria", published 1876 [ voice and piano (or, later, organ) ], Paris: Choudens (and later, Paris: Heugel & Cie., 1876 ; London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co, 1881 and 1883) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Ave Maria", op. 24 [ mezzo-soprano, harp, and organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Ave Maria", op. 59 [ voice, organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Ave Maria", op. 22 no. 6 [ high voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 12, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "O bone et dulcis Domine Jesus" [ chorus ], motet
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• by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Pater noster / Ave Maria" [ chorus ]
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Set in a modified version by Joseph Jongen, Josquin des Prez.

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Set in a modified version by Jean Mouton.

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by S. Puhtila ; composed by Toivo Kuula.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation] ; composed by Charles Gounod.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "Je vous salue Marie" ; composed by René-Emmanuel Baton, as Rhené-Baton, François Berthet, Pierre de Bréville, Edmond Brun, Henri-Paul Büsser, André Caplet, René d'Avezac de Castéra, Louis August Edmond Hendrik de Meester, Henri-Pierre Poupard, as Henri Sauguet.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts ; composed by Alfredo Catalani.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Domenico Capellina (1819 - 1858) [an adaptation] ; composed by Pietro Mascagni.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Angelo Zanardini (1820 - 1893) ; composed by Francesco Cilea.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) ; composed by Anton Yulyevich Simon.
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• Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Carlos López Buchardo.
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• Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Laura Constance Netzel.
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• Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Bible or other Sacred Texts ; composed by Nestor Ostapovych Nyzhankivsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• AFR Afrikaans (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Wees gegroet Maria"
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Wees gegroet, Maria"
• ENG English (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Ave Maria"
• FRE French (Français) (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Bible or other Sacred Texts) , "Dios te salve Maria"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 32

Je vous salue Marie, pleine de grâce.
Le Seigneur est avec vous.
Vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,
et Jésus, le fruit de vos entrailles, est béni.

Sainte Marie,
Mère de Dieu, 
priez pour nous pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant et à l'heure de notre mort.

Ainsi soit-il.