Besides these choirs there existed a number of musical associations in connection with different churches in Warsaw.

Indeed, it cannot be doubted that great progress was made in the first thirty years of this century, and had it not been for the unfortunate insurrection of 1830, Poland would have succeeded in producing a national art and taking up an honourable position among the great musical powers of Europe, whereas now it can boast only of individual artists of more or less skill and originality.
The musical events to which the death of the Emperor Alexander I.
gave occasion in 1826, show to some extent the musical capabilities of Warsaw.

On one day a Requiem by Kozlowski (a Polish composer, then living in St.Petersburg; b.

1757, d.

1831), with interpolations of pieces by other composers, was performed in the Cathedral by two hundred singers and players under Soliva.