One of the better-known settings of the Ave Maria text, Gounod's version from 1852 added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's
Part of a series of operatic aria anthologies subdivided by vocal register, this collection is drawn from Antonio Vivaldi's surviving musical works for the theater. Its sources include 24 musical dramas,