<P> Anton Bruckner wrote three different settings, the best known being a motet for seven voices . Antonín Dvořák's version was composed in 1877 . Another setting of Ave Maria was written by Giuseppe Verdi for his 1887 opera Otello . Russian composer César Cui, who was raised Roman Catholic, set the text at least three times: as the "Ave Maria", op . 34, for one or two women's voices with piano or harmonium (1886), and as part of two of his operas: Le flibustier (premiered 1894) and Mateo Falcone (1907). </P> <P> Settings also exist by Mozart, Liszt, Byrd, Elgar, Saint - Saëns, Rossini, Brahms, Stravinsky, Lauridsen, Franz Biebl, David Conte and Perosi as well as numerous versions by less well - known composers, such as J.B. Tresch and Ninel Samokhvalova . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Ave Maria" The prayer as a traditional Latin Gregorian chant "Ave Maria" The second of Anton Bruckner's three settings of "Ave Maria" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing these files? See media help . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Ave Maria" The prayer as a traditional Latin Gregorian chant "Ave Maria" The second of Anton Bruckner's three settings of "Ave Maria" </Td> </Tr>

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