they seizing the form of work sure subtleties are for foreigners inaccessible. As poetical notion idealized mazurka - Chopinian they stood prototypes. Different the type of mazurka created Stanisław completely Moniuszko in operas one's Underskirt and Terrible manor. Mazurkas Chopina, though wedding flashes have sometimes even, they happen sad, dreamy, leaning on background mostly clean people's. Mazurkas Moniuszki, full imagination knight's, rakish, boisterous times, they are painting village noble life".

In ostatnich times put in way many a time to meet from sentence, that Chopin until to recent he did not exert no influence on Polish music, that then, when for border They drew Liszt and Wagner full handfuls with Chopina their musical knowledge they, in country Moniuszko and different composed on old fashion, so completely as it would not be works Chopina. Not coming in in essence of matter, anyway one should one underline, that Moniuszko - not saying about Żeleńskim and Zarzyckim he - knew work perfectly Chopina, that he for them was with the highest worship, and special cult for his mazurkas had. When in year 1857 J. I. Kraszewski in one's lists to " Varsovian Newspaper" from