and Clara Schumann. Reputation In the 19th century, Niecks' reputation as a Chopin scholar was strong, but diminished in his later years. The Monthly Musical Record wrote in 1915: "His whole professional life has been one long big accident [including] the manner in which he first came to be regarded as the greatest living authority on Chopin". In recent years there are claims that "Niecks' sections on 1841–1849 and the posthumous years are flawed with half-truths, hearsay, misinformation, omissions, hints and puns", and that such inaccuracies have been copied and perpetuated by other writers. Nevertheless, in 2011, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, in Warsaw, Poland, published a Polish version of Niecks' Chopin biography. Sources Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol VI, p. 83-4 References External links 1845 births 1924 deaths German music educators British music educators German male writers Chopin scholars Robert Schumann Academics of the University of Edinburgh German music historians 19th-century musicologists