r Lablache, and M. Alexis
Dupont)) were placed at the extreme end of the church, a black
drapery concealing them from view.

[FOOTNOTE: This statement is confirmed by one in the Gazette
musicals, where we read that the members of the Societe des
Concerts "have made themselves the testamentary executors of
this wish"--namely, to have Mozart's Requiem performed. Madame
Audley, misled, I think, by a dubious phrase of Karasowski's,
that has its origin in a by no means dubious phrase of
Liszt's, says that Meyerbeer conducted (dirigeait l'ensemble).
Liszt speaks of the conducting of the funeral procession.]

When the service commenced the drapery was partially withdrawn
and exposed the male executants to view, concealing the women,
whose presence, being uncanonical, was being felt, not seen. A
solemn march was then struck up by the band, during the
performance of which the coffin containing the body of the
deceased was slowly carried up the middle of the nave...As
soon as the coffin was placed in the mausoleum, Mozart's
Requiem was begun...The march that accompanied the body to the
mausoleum was Chopin's own composition from his first
pianoforte sonata, instrumented for the orchestra by M. Henri
Reber.

[FOOTNOTE: Op. 35, the first of those then published, but in
reality his second, Op. 4 being the first. Meyerbeer
afterwards expressed to M. Charles Gavard his surprise that he
had not been asked to do the deceased the homage of scoring
the march.]

During the ceremony M. Lefebure-Wely, organist of the
Madeleine, performed two of Chopin's preludes [FOOTNOTE: Nos.
4 and 6, in E and B minor] upon the organ...After the service
M. Wely played a voluntary, introducing themes from Chopin's
compositions, while the crowd dispersed with decorous gravity.
The coffin was then carried from the church, all along the
Boulevards, to the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise-a distance of
three miles at least--Meyerbeer and the other chief mourners,
who held the cords, walking on foot, bareheaded.

[FOOTNOTE: Liszt writes that Meyerbeer and Prince Adam
Czartoryski conducted the funeral procession, and that Prince
Alexander Czartoryski, Delacroix, Franchomme, and Gutmann were
the pall-bearers. Karasowski mentions the same gentlemen as
pall-bearers; Madame Audley, on the other hand, names
Meyerbeer instead of Gutmann. Lastly, Theophile Gautier
reported in the Feui