While in his mid-teens, during bvacations/b spent at the village of Szafarnia (where he was a guest of Prince Antoni Radziwiłł), Chopin was exposed to folk melodies that he would later transmute into original compositions. b...../b The soloists in the Requiem included the bass bLuigi/b Lablache ? who had sung the same work at Beethoven's funeral and had also sung at Bellini's funeral ? and Chopin's and George Sand's friend, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. ...
