(Julia M. Nauhaus, translated by Thomas Henninger). Summary Transcript. ")[6][7] Her musical studies came largely at the expense of her broader general education, although she still studied religion and languages under her father's control of the family. Clara Schumann: The Overlooked Romantic Composer You Need To Know They included subjects such as piano, violin, singing, theory, harmony, composition, and counterpoint. Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) | Encyclopedia.com [32], Brahms played his First Symphony for her before its premiere. Voreingestellt werden nur zulssige Cookies, fr die wir keine Einwilligung bentigen. II. Clara Schumann - Net Worth April 2023, Salary, Age, Siblings, Bio As Herr Wieck continued to reject Robert's requests to marry his daughter, the couple finally decided to go to court for permission to marry without his consent. . Her eldest living son Ludwig suffered from mental illness like his father and, in her words, eventually had to be "buried alive" in an institution. ." Her father followed the methods in his own book, Wiecks pianistische Erziehung zum schnen Anschlag und zum singenden Ton ("Wieck's Piano Education for a Delicate Touch and a Singing Sound. When she was 14 and her future husband 23, he wrote to her: Tomorrow precisely at eleven o'clock I will play the adagio from Chopin's Variations and at the same time I shall think of you very intently, exclusively of you. 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." The controversy eventually died down, but Clara Schumann remained steadfast in her disapproval of the New German School's music during her lifetime. As a flourishing composer's wife, she was limited in her own explorations. Bitte treffen Sie vor dem Speichern eine Auswahl! During that tour, the violinist Niccol Paganini, who was also in Paris, offered to appear with her. [8], She often took charge of finances and general household affairs.