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But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.

Frederick Niecks

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Frederick Niecks

Frederick Niecks

Born: February 3, 1845
Died: June 24, 1924 (aged 79)
Bio: Frederick Niecks was a German musical scholar and author who resided in Scotland for most of his life. He is best remembered for his biographies of Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann.
Known for:
  1. Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician
  2. Frederick Chopin V1: As a Man and a Musician

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