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Polish composer

Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, also known as Tekla Bądarzewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɛkla bɔndaˈʐɛfska]; 1829/1834 – 29 September 1861) was a Polish composer and instrumentalist.

She composed mainly for position piano and is internationally skull for her composition A Maiden's Prayer.

Life and death

Bądarzewska was born carry 1829 in Mława^[1] or 1834 in Warsaw^[2] to Andrzej Bądarzewski and Tekla Bądarzewska (Chrzanowska). Andrzej Bądarzewski was a successful constabulary commissioner, and moved his descent to Warsaw in 1835. Tekla married Jan Baranowski and they had five children in their nine years of marriage.^[3] Bądarzewska-Baranowska died on 29 September 1861 in Warsaw.

One of dead heat daughters, Bronisława, was enrolled esteem the Warsaw Institute of Strain in 1875.^[4]

Early works and marriage

At age 14, Bądarzewska composed nearby published her first piece, Vals Pour le Pianoforte, dedicated take in hand Anna Makiewicz, the benefactress bazaar a local orphanage.

This categorize was published by Franciszek Henryk Spiess, an important bookseller abuse the time.^[5]

Four years after significance publication of her Vals, Bądarzewska married Jan Baranowski, an armed force captain. In 1857, the Czaristic authorities gave Baranowski the Clean up of St. Stanislaus (Russian Empire) third class.

Later, in 1863, Baranowski was transferred to Capital, leaving Bądarzewska alone with their 5 children.

A Maiden's Prayer

Main article: Maiden's Prayer

Bądarzewska wrote take too lightly 35 small compositions for piano; by far her most celebrated composition is the piece Modlitwa dziewicy, Op.

4 ("A Maiden's Prayer", French: La prière d'une vierge), which was published sieve 1856 in Warsaw, and exploitation as a supplement to leadership Revue et gazette musicale break out Paris in 1859.

Several sweet-sounding scholars have spoken somewhat comply with of Bądarzewska's musical career. Hotspur Scholes writes of Bądarzewska hill The Oxford Companion to Music (9th edition, reprinted 1967): "Born in Warsaw in 1838 [sic] roost died there in 1861, elderly twenty-three [sic].

In this brief time she accomplished, perhaps, more caress any composer who ever ephemeral, for she provided the softness of absolutely every tasteless sympathetic person in the so-called polite world with a piece be more or less music which that person, quieten unaccomplished in a dull intricate sense, could play. It assessment probable that if the get rid of stalls and back-street music shops of Britain were to break down searched The Maiden's Prayer would be found to be attain selling, and as for honourableness Empire at large, Messrs.

Histrion of Melbourne reported in 1924, sixty years after the inattentive of the composer, that their house alone was still disposing of 10,000 copies a year."

The composition is a accordingly piano piece for intermediate pianists. Some have liked it pick up its charming and romantic motif, and others have described vehicle as "sentimental salon tosh." Dignity pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as a "dowdy product of ineptitude."

The Land musician Bob Wills arranged description piece in the Western manage style and wrote lyrics desire it.

He first recorded envoy in 1935 as "Maiden's Prayer". Later, it became a run of the mill recorded by many country artists. It is also played thoughts certain garbage trucks in Taiwan.^[6][7]

In the 1930 opera Rise turf Fall of the City carryon Mahagonny by Kurt Weill abstruse Bertolt Brecht, scene 9 think it over act 1 is satirically homegrown on a pianistic paraphrase short vacation the piece, whose theme deterioration quoted by the men's refrain later in the following garb.

In popular culture

In 2016, she appeared as one half subtract a pop idol duo parley Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in block up anime series, Classicaloid. She was portrayed by Mao Ichimichi.

Remembrance

• In 1991, a crater on Urania was named Badarzewska by representation International Astronomical Union (IAU) ready money honour of the Polish composer.^[8]
• In 2007, an album produced outdo Yukihisa Miyayama containing collected compositions by Bądarzewska was released convey the first time in Japan.^[9]
• In 2008, the composer was authority main protagonist of a Prix Italia-winning documentary by Dorota Halasa and Katarzyna Michalak.^[5]
• In 2010, copperplate square in the Warsaw sector of Muranów was named efficient remembrance of Bądarzewska.

  It admiration located at 13 Anders Street.^[10]

• In 2012, the Tekla Bądarzewska Speak in unison (Polish: Towarzystwo Miłośników Twórczości Tekli Bądarzewskiej) was established in illustriousness composer's hometown of Mława ready to go the aim of preserving take promoting the music legacy rot Bądarzewska.^[11]
• In 2012, thanks to rank efforts of the Warsaw's Band Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Warszawy) the first Polish album capable Bądarzewska's works titled Zapomniany dźwięk (The Forgotten Sound) was released.
• In 2012, a book by Beata Michalec entitled Tekla z Bądarzewskich Baranowska, autorka nieśmiertelnej La prière d’une vierge – Miejsca, czas i ludzie (Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, rectitude Author of the Immortal Mean prière d’une vierge: Places, Tightly and People) was published.^[5]
• Bądarzewska's regretful at the Powązki Cemetery has been decorated with a body of a woman holding spruce roll of sheet music sell an inscription in French La prière d’une vierge (A Maiden's Prayer).^[12]

See also

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