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The Maiden's Prayer Op.4

Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska

What's this piece like?

This short composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859.

It has a charming and tender theme based on a harmonic progression repeated in five different variations. The composer explores octaves,  arpeggios, and ornaments, making this a great study in these techniques. 

In Taiwan, The Maiden's Prayer is played on garbage trucks, along with Beethoven's Für Elise, to alert citizens of the presence of a nearby truck.

Who's this piece for?

This is a great piece for intermediate level pianists with a solid foundation and strong technique.

3-4 pages

Romantic

Eb major

MOOD: Calm and tender.

TECHNIQUE: Octaves and arpeggios.

Ranking

Equivalent to RCM level 8

Equivalent to ABRSM level 7

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1848

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write the Communist Manifesto.

1849

Frédéric Chopin died.

1851

Herman Melville writes Moby-Dick.

1853

Crimean War begins as Turkey declares war on Russia.

1856

The Maiden's Prayer was first published when T. Bądarzewska-Baranowska was 22 years old.

1856

Robert Schumann died.

1857

First public performance of F. Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor by H.V. Bülow.

1858

Abraham Lincoln makes strong antislavery speech: “This Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”

1858

First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable completed by Cyrus W. Field.

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