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He begged his sister to burn all his inferior
compositions. "I owe it to the public," he said, "and to myself
to publish only good things. I kept to this resolution all my
life; I wish to keep to it now." This wish has not been
respected. The posthumous publications are for the most part
feeble stuff.
Chopin died, October 17, 1849, between three and four in the
morning, after having been shrived by the Abbe Jelowicki. His
last word, according to Gavard, was "Plus," on being asked if he
suffered. Regarding the touching and slightly melodramatic death
bed scene on the day previous, when Delphine Potocka sang
Stradella and Mozart--or was it Marcello?--Liszt, Karasowski, and
Gutmann disagree.
The following authentic account of the last hours of Chopin
appears here for the first time in English, translated by Mr.
Hugh Craig. In Liszt's well-known work on Chopin, second edition,
1879, mention is made of a conversation that he had held with the
Abbe Jelowicki respecting Chopin's death; and in Niecks'
biography of Chopin some sentences from letters by the Abbe are
quoted.


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