Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska (1834-September 29, 1861) was a Polish woman composer.
She became world-famous for her piece Modlitwa dziewicy, or A Maiden's Prayer which was composed in 1856 and first published as a supplement to the Paris Revue et Gazette Musicale in 1859.
Possibly one of the biggest selling pieces of piano music of all time, the piece, which is still recorded, is a medium difficulty short piano piece for intermediate pianists. Some have liked it for its charming and romantic melody: others have described it as "sentimental salon tosh". Arthur Loesser described it as ‘this dowdy product of ineptitude’.
The English language lyrics were written by John Stowell Adams .
Her date of birth is not clear. There are also references to her being born in 1838.
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