"Ave Maria" is a much recorded aria composed by
Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. It is a musical hoax
generally misattributed to Baroque composer Giulio
Caccini. Vavilov himself published and recorded it on
the Melodiya label with the ascription to "Anonymous"
in 1970. It is believed that the work received its
ascription to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, by
organist Mark Shakhin (one of its performers on the
mentioned "Melodiya" longplay), who gave the "newly
discovered scores" to other musi...(+)
"Ave Maria" is a much recorded aria composed by
Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. It is a musical hoax
generally misattributed to Baroque composer Giulio
Caccini. Vavilov himself published and recorded it on
the Melodiya label with the ascription to "Anonymous"
in 1970. It is believed that the work received its
ascription to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, by
organist Mark Shakhin (one of its performers on the
mentioned "Melodiya" longplay), who gave the "newly
discovered scores" to other musicians; then in an
arrangement made by the organist Oleg Yanchenko for the
recording by Irina Arkhipova in 1987, then the piece
came to be famous worldwide
Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov (1925 – 1973) was a
Russian guitarist, lutenist and composer. He was a
student of P. Isakov (guitar) and Iogann Admoni
(composition) at the Rimski-Korsakov Music College in
St Petersburg. He played an important part in the early
music revival in the Soviet Union.
Vavilov was active as a performer on both lute and
guitar, as a music editor for a state music publishing
house, and more important, as a composer. He routinely
ascribed his own works to other composers, usually
Renaissance or Baroque (occasionally from later eras),
usually with total disregard of a style that should
have been appropriate, in the spirit of other
mystificators of the previous eras. His works achieved
enormous circulation, and some of them achieved true
folk music status, with several poems set to his
melodies.
Vavilov died in poverty, of pancreatic cancer, a few
months before the appearance of "The City of Gold",
which became a hit overnight.
Although originally written for accompanied voice, I
created this arrangement for Viola and Acoustic piano.
SHEET MUSIC