Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska Explained

Tekla Bądarzewska
Birth Date:1829/1834
Birth Place:Mława, Russian Empire
Death Date:29 September 1861 (aged 27 or 32)
Death Place:Warsaw, Russian Empire
Nationality:Polish
Occupation:composer, pianist
Known For:A Maiden's Prayer

Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, also known as Tekla Bądarzewska (Polish pronunciation: ; 1829/1834 – 29 September 1861) was a Polish composer and pianist. She composed mainly for the piano and is internationally known for her composition A Maiden's Prayer.

Life and death

Bądarzewska was born in 1829 in Mława[1] or 1834 in Warsaw[2] to Andrzej Bądarzewski and Tekla Bądarzewska (Chrzanowska). Andrzej Bądarzewski was a successful police commissioner, and moved his family 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 her daughters, Bronisława, was enrolled at the Warsaw Institute of Music in 1875.[4]

Early works and marriage

At age 14, Bądarzewska composed and published her first piece, Vals Pour le Pianoforte, dedicated to Anna Makiewicz, the benefactress of a local orphanage. This piece was published by Franciszek Henryk Spiess, an important bookseller at the time.[5]

Four years after the publication of her Vals, Bądarzewska married Jan Baranowski, an army captain. In 1857, the Czarist authorities gave Baranowski the Order of St. Stanislaus (Russian Empire) third class. Later, in 1863, Baranowski was transferred to Tashkent, leaving Bądarzewska alone with their 5 children.

A Maiden's Prayer

See main article: Maiden's Prayer. Bądarzewska wrote about 35 small compositions for piano; by far her most famous composition is the piece , Op. 4 ("A Maiden's Prayer",), which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859.

Several musical scholars have spoken somewhat ill of Bądarzewska's musical career. Percy Scholes writes of Bądarzewska in The Oxford Companion to Music (9th edition, reprinted 1967): "Born in Warsaw in and died there in 1861, aged . In this brief lifetime she accomplished, perhaps, more than any composer who ever lived, for she provided the piano of absolutely every tasteless sentimental person in the so-called civilised world with a piece of music which that person, however unaccomplished in a dull technical sense, could play. It is probable that if the market stalls and back-street music shops of Britain were to be searched The Maiden's Prayer would be found to be still selling, and as for the Empire at large, Messrs. Allen of Melbourne reported in 1924, sixty years after the death of the composer, that their house alone was still disposing of copies a year."

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

The American musician Bob Wills arranged the piece in the Western swing style and wrote lyrics for it. He first recorded it in 1935 as "Maiden's Prayer". Later, it became a standard recorded by many country artists. It is also played on certain garbage trucks in Taiwan.[6] [7]

In the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, scene 9 in act 1 is satirically based on a pianistic paraphrase of the piece, whose theme is quoted by the men's chorus later in the following ensemble.

In popular culture

In 2016, she appeared as one half of a pop idol duo with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in an anime series, Classicaloid. She was portrayed by Mao Ichimichi.

Remembrance

See also

References

  1. http://www.tpw.org.pl/?TEKLA_Z_B%A1DARZEWSKICH_BARANOWSKA Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
  2. Web site: Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska . 2013-11-25 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20071016224601/http://fuer-die-ohren.at/Tekla-Badarzewska-Baranowska.htm . 16 October 2007. de.
  3. Web site: ‘The Maiden’s Prayer’ and beyond . pianodao.com . 25 November 2023.
  4. [Stanisław Szenic]
  5. Web site: Tekla Bądarzewska skomponowała słynną "Modlitwę dziewicy", a jej nazwiskiem nazwano krater na Wenus . pl . histmag.org . Magdalena Mikrut-Majeranek . 16 November 2021 . 25 November 2023.
  6. http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=938&Itemid=156 "'A Maiden's Prayer': A call to dump all our garbage"
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20220430205942/http://cgots.utdallas.edu/cgotspapers/Papers/08.pdf "From Consensus to Shifting Coalition: Tri-partite Politics in the Taipei City Council"
  8. Web site: Tekla Bądarzewska skomponowała słynną "Modlitwę dziewicy", a jej nazwiskiem nazwano krater na Wenus . pl . 20 September 2022.
  9. Web site: Polska "Spełniona modlitwa dziewicy" hitem w Japonii . pl . 30 November 2007 . 25 November 2023 . 18 June 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080618162241/http://www.asakonishi.com/aka/text/2007/20071130spelniona_modlitwa_dziewicy.htm . dead .
  10. Web site: Muranowskie aktywistki, nauczycielki, poetki. O kobietach żydowskich przedwojennej Warszawy . pl . 20 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170729232257/https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/9426/A.%20Dragon%2c%20Muranowskie%20aktywistki%2c%20nauczycielki%2c%20poetki.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . 29 July 2017 . dead.
  11. Web site: TOWARZYSTWO MIŁOŚNIKÓW TWÓRCZOŚCI TEKLI BĄDARZEWSKIEJ . pl . 20 September 2022.
  12. Web site: Warszawskie Zabytkowe Pomniki Nagrobne . pl . 20 September 2022.

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