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Is there an arrangement of Schubert's "Ave Maria" that I could play on the piano as a solo, or for four hands?  All I can find is  very old German sheet music for vocal as one line melody with piano accompaniment as harmony (Ellen's Gesang).  We would love to have this for our church.  Thank you.

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Boy......I wish I could help you.  I don't know any 4-hands arrangement of this.  

Here are several versions (all in same file), once of which is your friend Ellen!  Think something here will be just what you want. This site is a gold mine of free music (public domain and therefore free of any copyright problems); bookmark it.

http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/schubert/D839/SchubertAveMariaSimplified....

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