Does anyone of you know the author of that lovely Ave Maria that we heard during the most memorable sequence in the film?
I become bored when I listen to the weary ones composed by Gounod, Schubert, Bach, etc.
This is fresh, delightful and full of beauty. It reminds me of the Duruflé Requiem.
I believe it is by Caccini. Just saw the movie now......
shareand you don't get tired of hearing that tacky clichéd kitsch "easy way out harmony" Ave Maria used in this film? this piece of music is pure drek.
And it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the sublime beauty of the Duruflé Requiem.
By the way, NOT by a "serious" composer this "Ave Maria". Notice, it's also only the first two words of the prayer? A real composer would have set the WHOLE thing. The harmony is also not authentic to the period it is attributed to.
It's by a contemporary (b 1925, d 1970) Russian composer who made a habit of composing these musical pastiches and releasing them as "newly discovered" works by older composers. In other words, the guy perpetrated hoaxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria_%28Vavilov%29