Her voice was destined to be the last which should vibrate upon the musician's heart.

Perhaps the sweetest sounds of earth accompanied the parting soul until they blended in his ear with the first chords of the angels' lyres.
He mingled much with the Polish circle in Paris; with Orda who seemed born to command the future, and who was however killed in Algiers at twenty years of age; with Counts Plater, Grzymala, Ostrowski, Szembeck, with Prince Lubomirski, etc.etc.As the Polish families who came afterwards to Paris were all anxious to form acquaintance with him, he continued to mingle principally with his own people.

He remained through them not only AU COURANT of all that was passing in his own country, but even in a kind of musical correspondence with it.

He liked those who visited Paris to show him the airs or new songs they had brought with them, and when the words of these airs pleased him, he frequently wrote a new melody for them, thus popularizing them rapidly in his country although the name of their author was often unknown.

The number of these melodies, due to the inspiration of the heart alone, having become considerable, he often thought of collecting them for publication.