Franz Schubert - Ellens Gesang III, D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6 (Ave Maria) (Hitman)

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Tema utilizado para la película "Hitman" realizada en 2007 y para el videojuego "Hitman: Blood Money" realizado en 2006.

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Album: "Hitman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)"
Track 1.- "Ave Maria"
Composed: Franz Schubert
Arranger: Geoff Zanelli
Vocal: Coline Grindel
Harp: Odile Abrel
Conductor: Mathieu Gonet
Producer: Geoff Zanelli, MV Gerhard
Label: La-La Land Records
℗ & © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Production Company: Anka Film, Daybreak Production, Dune Entertainment, Prime Universe Productions
Distributed: EuropaCorp (France) 20th Century Fox (US)

From Hitman: Blood Money: Additional music includes a rendition of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" menu and level "Requiem". Unfortunately, Eidos didn't put this song to official game soundtrack.

Album: "Ave Maria / Zürcher Sängerknaben"
Track 13.- "Ellen's Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 56, No. 6, D. 839, 'Hymne an die Jungfrau' "
Composed: Franz Schubert
Conductor: Alphons von Aarburg
Vocal: Daniel Perret
Choral Concert: Zurich Boys Choir
Harp: Praxedis Rütti
Organ: Daniel Winiger
Producer: Albrecht Gasteiner, Wadek Glowacz
4 & 5 June 1995 - 1 July 1995
Kirche St. Michael, Zollikerberg
Label: Tudor

Hitman is a 2007 French-American-British action-thriller film directed by Xavier Gens and based on the video game series of the same name. The story revolves around Agent 47, a professional hitman, who was engineered to be an assassin by the group known as "The Organization". He becomes ensnared in a political conspiracy and finds himself pursued by both Interpol and Russian intelligence.

Hitman: Blood Money is a stealth video game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360. It is the fourth installment in the Hitman video game series. The story follows the life of professional hitman, Agent 47, as narrated in cutscenes by a former Director of the FBI to a journalist who is interviewing him. The wheelchair-bound ex-director recounts how his agency tracked 47 over a two-year period.

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.

"Ellens dritter Gesang" ("Ellens Gesang III", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Opus 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German. It has become one of Schubert's most popular works, recorded by a wide variety and large number of singers, under the title of "Ave Maria", in arrangements with various lyrics which commonly differ from the original context of the poem. It was arranged in three versions for piano by Franz Liszt.

Latin Catholic prayer version:

Ave Maria, gratia plena.
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus,
dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus
et benedictus fructus ventris
ventris tui, Jesus.
Ave Maria.

Storck's translation used by Schubert:

Ave Maria! Jungfrau mild,
Erhöre einer Jungfrau Flehen,
Aus diesem Felsen starr und wild
Soll mein Gebet zu dir hin wehen.
Wir schlafen sicher bis zum Morgen,
Ob Menschen noch so grausam sind.
O Jungfrau, sieh der Jungfrau Sorgen,
O Mutter, hör ein bittend Kind!
Ave Maria!

Ave Maria! Unbefleckt!
Wenn wir auf diesen Fels hinsinken
Zum Schlaf, und uns dein Schutz bedeckt
Wird weich der harte Fels uns dünken.
Du lächelst, Rosendüfte wehen
In dieser dumpfen Felsenkluft,
O Mutter, höre Kindes Flehen,
O Jungfrau, eine Jungfrau ruft!
Ave Maria!

Source: Wikipedia.