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Tekla Bądarczewska-Baranowska (1834 -September 29, 1861) was a female Polish 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’....

Tekla (Pernilla Sternäng) is a Swedish singer from Helsingborg. She released four albums in the 1990's - two in Swedish and two in English: Oranga Blad (Orange leaves) 1992; Tekla 1994; Cactuses 1996; and Somebody Else 1998; on the MNW label in Sweden. Her fourth album was released in 1999 on the Vancouver, Canada label Nettwerk. She toured with Sarah McLaughlin on the 1999 Lilith fair tour as one of the Village Stage artists. She left the music industry in the early 2000's and little is known of her since. She is reportedly living in Stockholm today. More recently, a...