", In her late 40s, Schumann began to suffer from neuralgia and rheumatism, and she later grew deaf. Brahms played some of his piano solo compositions for the Schumanns, and they were deeply impressed. Young pianist to record album of Clara Schumann's works 15-year-old Clara Wieck in 1835. They included subjects such as piano, violin, singing, theory, harmony, composition, and counterpoint. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819. When she heard that Liszt and Richard Wagner would be participating in a Beethoven centenary festival in Vienna in 1870, she refused to attend.[11]. Updates? He was 18, and asked to study with Herr Wieck after hearing Clara play. In 1877, she performed Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto in Berlin, with Woldemar Bargiel conducting, her half-brother by her mother's second marriage, and had tremendous success. She also gave piano lessons and sang in the Singakademie music society. 27 Apr. On the other hand, for more than a year, Clara . The year he married Clara, Robert composed 138 songs, some of them among the greatest of the 19th century. In 1859, Ferdinand Hiller appointed him teacher of piano and music theory at the Cologne Conservatoire. [32], Brahms played his First Symphony for her before its premiere. Clara Schumann - Wikipedia She was also instrumental in changing the kind of program expected of concert pianists. When Clara was nine, her father remarried, and her stepmother proved to be kind and loving. Concerning Alwins death, Clara Schumann wrote to her friend Rosalie Leser: [If I had only seen him one more time! by Peter Ostwald. Amy Beach [31], After her marriage, she turned to lieder and choral works. were among her outstanding students, and even today there are performers who trace their musical pedagogy back to her ways of training. Clara Schumann . Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [53], She was the main breadwinner for her family and the sole one after her husband was hospitalized and then died. May, Florence. During their 14-year marriage, while she managed to perform on innumerable concert stages, he was composing some of the world's most beautiful music. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. In 1865, he became Conductor and Director of the Conservatoire in Rotterdam, where he met his wife Hermine Tours and worked until 1874. Mr. Wieck was a piano teacher of high repute. She wrote that he played "with a finish, a depth of poetic feeling, his whole soul in every note, so ideally, that I have never heard violin-playing like it, and I can truly say that I have never received so indelible an impression from any virtuoso." [2] Prompted by an affair between her mother and Adolph Bargiel, her father's friend,[3][4] the Wiecks were divorced in 1825, with Mariane later marrying Bargiel. "Clara Schumann ne Wieck," in The Art of the Piano. Trained by her father to play by ear and memorize, she gave public performances from memory as early as age thirteen, a fact noted as exceptional by her reviewers.