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Thursday, January 24, 2013

'A Maiden's Prayer', played on the piano.

"A Maiden's Prayer" (original Polish title: Modlitwa dziewicy Op. 4, French: La prière d'une vierge) is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861), which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859. The piece 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." The pianist and academic Arthur Loesser described it as "this dowdy product of ineptitude." - Wikipedia

Whatever one might say this was a wonderful piece on the piano which brought hours of pleasure to us in the 1960s. I heard it on Radio Ceylon a few days back and it brought back old memories. Click on each of the web-links below to travel to an enchanted world:-


1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bzwQeTr9E

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1sk0pvo-S4