He returns to the intoxication of Towianism: ‘Mickiewicz will end up in a bad way if he does not mock You’. He intends to break his contract with the London company which had hitherto published his works. To Fontana: ‘That wretched Wessel, I shall no longer send him, that Agréments au Salon, anything ever. Perhaps you did not know that this is how he called my Second Impromptu [in F sharp major] or one of the waltzes’.
To Fontana: ‘As for Wessel, he is a dolt, a cheat […] If he made a loss on my compositions, it was doubtless because of those idiotic titles that he gave them, in spite of my forbidding it and in spite of repeated ridicule’. The Nocturnes Op. 9 were given the title Les Murmures de la Seine, Op. 15, Les Zéphyrs, Op. 27, Les Plaintives, Op. 32, Il Lamento (B major) and La Consolazione (A flat major), Op. 37, Les Soupirs, the Ballade in G minor La Favorite, in F major La Gracieuse, the Scherzo in B minor Le Banquet infernal, and in B flat minor La Méditation. Chopin did give his consent to some titles, e.g. for Souvenir de la Pologne, given to successive mazurka cycles.
Topic: Chopin REALLY didn't like it when you changed the title of his works!