Schubert’s Ave Maria – the 1918 Columbia Recording
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Schubert’s Ave Maria, perhaps the best known of his over 600 songs, here played in an arrangement for violin solo by the youthful virtuoso Jascha Heifetz, then only 19.
Recorded in 1918 by Victor Records on a heavy 78 rpm disc, it was only recorded on one side; the other was left blank. It sold for one dollar, the equivalent of nearly $30 in the 21st century.
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