@Tommasocerno Ma pure ricordando un evento luttuoso il suo pensiero va alla sinistra ? ร una vera ossessione la sua. Si faccia curare prima che evolva in una psicosi grave
@ilriformista@aldotorchiaro Non riesco a capire se รจ piรน ridicola la Pinuccia o voi cazzari del Riformista. A proposito senza finanziamenti pubblici quanto rende il vostro prestigioso quotidiano ?
The most famous religious song in the world was not written as a prayer.
You have heard Ave Maria a thousand times. Everyone assumes Franz Schubert wrote it as a setting of the ancient Catholic prayer, the Hail Mary, but he did not...
This melody was never composed for the Latin prayer at all.
In 1825, at the age of 28, Schubert was working his way through a German translation of a poem by the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake. It is an adventure story, set among the warring clans of the sixteenth-century Scottish Highlands. In one scene, the heroine, a young woman named Ellen Douglas, is in hiding with her father in a mountain cave. Alone and afraid, she sings a song asking the Virgin Mary for help.
Schubert set seven songs from that poem to music. Three of them were sung by Ellen, and this was the last of her three. He called it, plainly, Ellens dritter Gesang โ 'Ellen's Third Song.' Its opening words were the two she would naturally cry out in her prayer: Ave Maria.
That was all it took...
The melody was so achingly beautiful that, in the years that followed, people began fitting the full Latin text of the actual Hail Mary prayer over his music. The fit was so natural, and the result so moving, that in the popular imagination the song became the prayer.
Schubert died in 1828, at thirty-one. He had written more than six hundred songs, and much of his work was still unpublished and little known beyond a small circle in Vienna.
He never knew that one melody, written for a fictional girl in a cave, would become one of the most beloved pieces of music in human history.
It is a strange and beautiful thing. The most famous prayer ever set to music began as a song about someone who was simply afraid, and reaching, in the dark, for something to hold onto. Perhaps that is exactly why it has never stopped moving people. It was a real prayer before it was ever a holy one...
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