Original sentence: Likewise Chopin improvised music to accompany Polish texts; but never musically illustrated a French or German text, even though numbered among his friends were several great French and German poets.Zdzisław Jachimecki notes that Chopin at every step demonstrated a "Polish spirit" in the hundreds of letters written in Polish, and in his relations with Paris's other Polish emigrés
Edited sentence: Likewise he spontaneously improvised music to accompany Polish texts; but never once did he set a song to a French or German text, even though he numbered among his friends several great French and German poets.Zdzisław Jachimecki notes that Chopin at every step demonstrated a Polish spirit — in the hundreds of letters that he wrote in Polish, in his relations with Paris' Polish emigrés, in his attitude toward the three empires that had dismembered Poland