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Chopin’s 17 collected songs, written throughout his life and published as Opus 17, are all settings of Polish poems, perhaps one reason they are seldom performed by non-Polish singers.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2010

The latter, even without Upper Silesia, becomes a State of 31,000,000 inhabitants, with about fifty per cent. of the population non-Polish, including very numerous groups of Germans.

From Peaceless Europe by Nitti, Francesco Saverio