Ave Maria

Franz Schubert

For euphonium and piano

In B♭ major, range F3 to F4

Ellen, hiding in a mountain cave with her outlawed father, prays to the Virgin Mary to keep them safe through the night. Schubert wrote it in 1825 to a German translation of Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake; the Latin “Ave Maria” words most people sing today were fitted to it later.

Also as a duet for two tubas

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