Quoted from the 19th Public Recording Concert Program

This piece, which can be described as both Baroque-like and film music-like, is actually said to be a song composed around 1970 by Vladimir Vavilov (1925-73, Soviet Union), not by Giulio Caccini.

Neither recordings nor scores were known until the mid-1990s.

The source has not been clarified, and all currently available published scores are arrangements. Furthermore, the lyrics, which simply repeat "Ave Maria," are incompatible with Baroque style.

However, it has now become an important repertoire alongside Schubert's and Gounod's "Ave Maria."