Some 137 years after Bach wrote his original Prelude, the Ave Maria was first published in 1853 under the title, Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. ... Bach. The piece superimposes a melodic line over Bach's piece, which - in the vocal versions - carries the Ave Maria words.

Did Bach and Schubert write Ave Maria?

It's a beautiful irony that the nation's favourite settings of the Ave Maria are composed by Bach and Schubert, yet neither of them actually wrote an Ave Maria. Schubert's music was actually written to the words of The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott but translated into German and called Ellens Third song.

Who wrote Ave Maria Bach or Schubert?

Ave Maria!, (Latin: “Hail Mary”) , original German title Ellens Gesang (“Ellen's Song”) III, song setting, the third of three songs whose text is derived of a section of Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake (1810) by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. It was written in 1825.