She was an accomplished singer, and had begun performing in public while still a teenager. She sang frequently at the Gewandhaus, the most important concert hall in Leipzig. Marianne was a former student of Frederick's. He had always admired her musical talent, but their shared interest in music was not the only reason he had married her. He knew that Marianne's success as a singer and pianist would bring him new students, also attracting new customers to his piano store. Under Frederick's watchful eye, Marianne kept a busy schedule of teaching and performing, even though she was almost constantly pregnant. In seven years, she gave birth to five children. Only three of the children survived: Clara, and her younger brothers Alvin and Gustav. Fortunately, Frederick agreed to hire nursemaids and nannies to help with the children. In the nineteenth century, even piano teachers could afford live-in servants, because servants were paid only pennies a day. However, even music could not make Frederick and Marianne's marriage a happy one. Frederick was talented and intelligent, but he could also be demanding, controlling, and stubborn. He often lost patience with Marianne and the children, and easily flew into screaming rages. .
The strain in Marianne and Frederick's marriage had a powerful and unusual effect on their only daughter: Clara did not speak a single word until she was over four years old, and then she spoke with difficulty. It seemed as if she couldn't hear or understand words. Some people even thought she was deaf or mentally retarded since she spoke so little, and seemed uninterested in what was going on around her. However, Frederick noticed that Clara had no trouble hearing music, so when she was five, he decided she was old enough to start music lessons.
He began by teaching her little dance tunes on the piano. Clara was expected to sit silently and obediently on the piano bench.
Robert Schumann Robert Schumann was born on the 8 of June 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony. ... His father, August Schumann was a bookseller. ... Clara father was not very happy about it. ... Clara has been very supportive towards Robert. ... As a composer Schumann's gifts are clear....
It was in Leipzig, at the age of twenty, Schumann met Friedrich Wieck. The name Wieck would come to be the most influential of all to Schumann. Wieck's claim to fame was his prodigal daughter, Clara, with whom Robert would find himself falling in love in just a few years. ... In order to understand Schumann's life, one absolutely must have studied his relationship with his wife, Clara. The daughter of Friedrich Wieck, Schumann's long-time music teacher, Clara was a virtuoso pianist, always better than Robert was, which quite possibl could have led to the self-destruction of...
All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... Schumann first met Clara when she was nine years old and he eighteen. ... Schumann found it exciting how Clara played his Papillons and other pieces. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ... Forbidding Clara to see or communicate with Schumann, he sent her to Dresden, but when Schumann followed her there, Friedrich became so violently angry that he threatened to...
All seemed well for Schumann, but soon he was to face even more struggles; this one a fight to marry the woman he loved, Clara Wieck. ... Schumann first met Clara when she was nine years old and he eighteen. ... Schumann found it exciting how Clara played his Papillons and other pieces. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ... Forbidding Clara to see or communicate with Schumann, he sent her to Dresden, but when Schumann followed her there, Friedrich became so violently angry that he threatened to...
His mother was Johanna Schumann. ... In 1826, Robert Schumann's father died. ... Her name was Clara Wieck. Robert Schumann was rejected when he asked Clara's father for her hand in marriage. ... Then in 1845, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married even without Clara's father's blessings. ...
July 1837: Chopin and Wodzinska splitted up and Chopin went back to Paris where Chopin meet Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, later Clara Schumann. ... He met the lovers Clara and Robert Schumann. ... Brahms moved in the Schumann's house for helping the wife, Clara Schuman. Brahms and Clara Schumann had fallen in love with each other. ... July 29, 1856: Schumann died and Brahms staied away from Clara Schumann. ...
Among these were Robert and Clara Schumann, both of whom caused a great influence in his life and career. ... The experience and familiarity of the different popular styles he acquired from his previous jobs, the conservative tastes influenced upon him by German music teacher Eduard Marxsen and the sentimental impact Clara Schumann had on him, contributed all to his unique style of composition that ultimately let him to fame. ...
Among these artists were Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1819-1896), Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1849), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Hector Beriloz (1803-1869), Peter Ilyic Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). ...
