Despite these constraints, Clara Wieck Schumann became a concert pianist and composer. "She was really a pioneer with so many things," says Australian pianist Andrea Lam, one of the judges in the ...

Neither was Fanny Mendelssohn but Clara Wieck Schumann had a 61-year career as a pianist. Sponsored. Sponsored. Video: Clara Schumann. Piano Concerto Op. 7 — Francesco Nicolosi.

Around 1830, 20-year-old Robert Schumann arrived at the Wieck household as a boarding student with Clara's father. A friendly rivalry between Clara and Robert soon developed and eventually ...

Though she remains one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century, Clara Wieck Schumann is relatively unknown as a musician and composer. Historically, her life and work has only been ...

By 1840, Clara Wieck, 20, was a distinguished pianist and had been in the public eye for more than a decade. ... At the end of 1844 Schumann and Clara moved to Dresden, ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still inspiring musicians today.

‘I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I gave up on that idea,” the celebrated young German pianist and composer Clara Wieck wrote in 1839. “A woman must not desire to ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was one of the most highly regarded pianists of her day, a prodigy who first appeared in concert at age 9, and a legendary teacher (she was the first woman teacher at the Hoch ...

Franz Liszt remembered his enthusiasm of that period, and many years afterward wrote in his extravagant way,—“ When we heard Clara Wieck in Vienna, fifteen years ago, she drew her hearers ...

One of the 19 th century’s most important musical power couples, Robert and Clara Schumann, will be the focus Thursday of a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. More to the point ...

In 1835, the piano concerto by Schumann (then Clara Wieck, not yet married to the composer Robert Schumann) premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn.

Clara Schumann, one of the busiest concert pianists of the 19th century, was acclaimed throughout Europe for her power, her nuance, her technique, her soul. "She has a musical genius of the ...