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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ignaz Moscheles, Ferdinand Hiller, Die Prinzen, Thomanerchor, Johann Schein, Ensemble Sortisatio, Mdr Symphony Orchestra, Schweigt Stille, Plaudert Nicht, Bwv 211, Ferdinand David, Klaus Renft Combo, Think About Mutation. Excerpt: Sketch of Clara Wieck Schumann Clara Schumann ( née Clara Josephine Wieck ; 13 September 1819 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era . She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann . She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms , and she was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms' works, notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel . Biography Clara Josephine Wieck was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 to Friedrich and Marianne Wieck ( née Tromlitz). Her parents divorced when she was six years old; Clara was raised by her father. Early career Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph In March 1828, at the age of eight, the young Clara Wieck performed at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of a mental hospital at Colditz Castle , and met another gifted young pianist invited to the musical evening named Robert Schumann , nine years older than she. Schumann admired Clara's playing so much that he asked permission from his mother to discontinue his studies of the law, which had never interested him much, and take music lessons with Clara's father, Friedrich Wieck. While taking lessons, he took rooms in the Wieck household, staying about a year. In 1830, at the age o...