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Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1829/1834 – 29 September 1861) was a Polish composer. Bądarzewska was born in 1829 in Mława〔(Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska ), . Some sources, like Percy Scholes in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'', give 1838 as her year of birth; given that she died in 1861 and had 5 children in 9 years of marriage, that year seems unlikely. Other sources give 1834.〕 or 1834 in Warsaw〔 〕 She married Jan Baranowski and they had five children in their nine years of marriage. Bądarzewska-Baranowska died on 29 September 1861 in Warsaw. Her grave in the Powązki Cemetery features a young woman with a roll of sheet music titled '. One of her daughters, Bronisława, was enrolled at the Warsaw Institute of Music in 1875.〔Stanisław Szenic: (''Cmentarz Powązkowski 1851–1890'' ), Warsaw 1981, p. 126 〕 A crater on Venus is named after her. ==A Maiden's Prayer== (詳細はRevue et gazette musicale de Paris'' in 1859. Percy Scholes, writes in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' (9th edition, reprinted 1967) rather unkindly of Bądarzewska: "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.〔("'A Maiden's Prayer': A call to dump all our garbage" ) by Leo Maliksi (7 October 2008)〕〔("From Consensus to Shifting Coalition: Tri-partite Politics in the Taipei City Council" ), p. 21, by Jaushieh Joseph Wu, National Chengchi University, in ''Working Papers in Taiwan Studies'' No. 8 (where the piece is mistakenly attributed to Beethoven)〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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