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Franz Schubert
Portrait of Franz Schubert, oil on wood by Gábor Melegh, 1827; in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
The Austrian composer Franz Schubert composed his famous song setting “Ave Maria!” in 1825.1
The work was originally titled after Ellen Douglas, the heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s poem The Lady of the Lake, from which the text was derived. Although it is now widely associated with the traditional Roman Catholic prayer, Schubert did not write the piece with religious practices in mind.1