Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, also known as Tekla Bądarzewska was a Polish composer and pianist. She composed mainly for the piano and is internationally known for her composition A Maiden's Prayer.
Cover of the "Maiden's Prayer" by Tekla Bądarzewska
Grave of Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska in the Baranowski family tomb, Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
"A Maiden's Prayer" is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861). It was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859. It is a short piano piece of medium difficulty for intermediate pianists. Some have liked it for its charming and romantic melody; others have described it as "sentimental salon tosh." The pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as "this dowdy product of ineptitude."
Cover of the "Maiden's Prayer" by Thecla Badarzewska, 1900