Ave Maria Schubert

Ellens Gesang III, D839, Op 52 no 6, 1825 The piece is often referred to as Schubert s Ave Maria; but it was originally composed as a setting of a song from Walter Scott s popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, in the German translation by Adam Storck, and thus forms part of Schubert s Liederzyklus vom Fräulein vom See. In Scott s poem the character Ellen Douglas, the Lady of the Lake (Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands) has gone with her father to hide in the Goblin s cave nearby to avoid d