
	Where results make sense

Topic: Clara Wieck

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Clara Schumann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 – May 20, 1896), wife of composer Robert Schumann, was one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era as well as a composer.
		Clara Schumann trained from an early age with her father, the well-known piano pedagogue Friedrich Wieck.
		In the various tours on which she accompanied her husband, she extended her own reputation farther than the outskirts of Germany, and it was thanks to her efforts that his compositions became generally known in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clara_Schumann (512 words)

	Clara Schumann and Her Songs by Kristin Norderval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara did not suffer beatings, but Wieck became so invested in her successes as a measure of his own that he spoke of her concerts as "our triumphs," and he began a diary for her in which he himself wrote as though he were his daughter.
		Clara also enlisted the help of some of her piano students, but she was still the one ultimately responsible for all aspects of household life.
		Clara and Robert Schumann had lived their lives together through music, and composing had been such a primary and personal communication between them that it is not surprising that she stopped composing after his death.
	www.norderval.org /Schumann.htm (4521 words)

	Clara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara Josephine Wieck was born in Leipzig in 1819.
		After a courtship which Clara's tyrannical father tried desperately to prevent (banning them from seeing each other, and resorting to a court of law), Clara married Robert in 1840 as soon as she reached the age of 21.
		Clara Schumann died in 1896 aged 77 and was buried in Robert's grave in Bonn.
	www.btinternet.com /~gripp/schumann/clara.htm (345 words)

	Out of the Shadows: Clara Schumann
		Clara is the talk of the town and the other artists are butting their heads together in despair.
		It was in Vienna that Clara received what was, for her father, the highest possible validation of his efforts; the Emperor honored Clara with the title of Royal and Imperial Chamber Virtuosa, a singular distinction for a woman, a Protestant and a foreigner.
		Wieck was opposed to the match and he had good reason: Schumann had a history of drinking and depression, no visible means of supporting a spouse and had had other unsuccessful relationships with women.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/9607_schumann/cschumann1.htm (2067 words)

	Theme and Variations: February 2005
		Wieck's proof of his piano method was given by his daughter Clara, who was nine years old when Robert began taking lessons with her father.
		Robert thought that Wieck would welcome Robert into the family; for Wieck's part, Clara was his source of income, and was to be the world's greatest pianist, not a wounded student's housewife.
		Robert countered with a suit against Wieck, after obtaining an affidavit from Clara, that would allow him to marry Clara (who could not consent to be married without her father's approval until she was twenty-one).
	themeandvariations.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_themeandvariations_archive.html (1391 words)

	Robert and Clara Schumann - a biography
		While Clara appealed to the courts, she refused to disobey her father and marry Schumann without either her father's permission or the court's sanction, fearing loss of her inheritance and with it, financial security.
		The courts did finally grant the appeal and Clara Wieck became Clara Schumann at the age of twenty-one, her husband thirty.
		Clara wrote in her diary, "I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose - there has never yet been one able to do it.
	azaz.essortment.com /robertclarasch_rjya.htm (1113 words)

	Sleeve Notes - Clara Schumann: Complete Songs
		Clara Schumann’s presence in the history of European music has become firmly fixed in recent years: the many new biographies, editions, recordings and performances of her compositions are testimony to her significance and influence.
		Clara Wieck Schumann, born in Leipzig in 1819, began performing as a pianist at the age of nine and remained on the concert stage for over sixty years.
		Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann met when she was a child of nine and already performing publicly in Leipzig.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /notes/67249.html (3042 words)

	Clara Schumann Biography, Quick Facts, Introduction to Op. 37/12
		-Clara's parents were Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873), a music teacher, and Marianne Tromlitz Wieck (Bargiel) (1797-1872), a soprano and student of Wieck; Clara's father had resolved before her birth that she would be a great musician and child prodigy.
		Though Clara's ambitions as a concert pianist and composer were hindered by the responsibilities of family life, Robert encouraged her to compose.
		Clara chose poems of devotion and passion uniquely from a woman's perspective; Robert preferred poetry full of metaphor, vivid imagery, and classical themes, but likewise revealing a man's viewpoint.
	www.geneva.edu /~dksmith/clara/bio.html (804 words)

	Life On Hold--Clara Wieck Schumann
		Clara Schumann was born Clara Wieck, daughter of pianist Friedrich Wieck, and soprano Marianne Tromlitz Wieck.
		Clara was a great pianist in her own right, steadily achieving fame as a concert pianist during her courtship with Robert.
		Clara was distressed to see her piano skills in such disuse; when Robert was composing she could not practice for fear of disturbing him.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_history/78704 (553 words)

	Clara Schumann
		Clara did not begin to speak until she was 4 years old, and her parents thought that she might be deaf.
		Clara was not allowed a normal childhood, for she spent her time practicing and taking music lessons from her domineering father, being tutored in languages and music theory, and attending concerts.
		Wieck had good reason to oppose the match, for Robert Schumann had a history of drinking and depression, had no visible means of supporting a spouse, and had had other unsuccessful relationships with women.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1945/WSB/clara.html (1803 words)

	Who Was Clara Schumann?
		As a teenager, Clara fell in love with Robert Schumann, one of her father’s piano students, who was destined to become one of the most beloved composers of the19th century.
		Clara’s concert career consistently earned more money to support the family than Robert, who (especially during the first decade of their married life) was just beginning to become known as a composer and writer/editor.
		Clara also composed her own music, no easy task with her family responsibilities, practicing, and the fact that her husband required a quiet house in order that he could concentrate on his own composition.
	www.fairbornonline.com /ScottPianoStudio/whowas.html (707 words)

	Clara by Janice Galloway - read review
		With single-minded determination, born from years of mental discipline, thirty-seven-year-old Clara Wieck Schumann, dressed in fl, took the arm of her friend, Johannes Brahms, and was escorted to the piano, where she would begin a new phase of her life.
		Clara, the mother of their eight children, one of them a baby born shortly after Robert was institutionalized, was now the sole support of her family, dependent on her talents as a performer to keep her large family together.
		Clara played for Paganini at eight, for a Dresden audience at nine, and for the music lovers of Paris at twelve, and her father laughed when he overheard comments from the audience asserting that she was really a midget.
	mostlyfiction.com /history/galloway.htm (1495 words)

	John Sichel's Program Notes
		There certainly is an element of truth to this view, as Clara did give up on, or cut back on her composition after her marriage, and yet she did continue her career as a top-rate concert pianist and chamber musician-- while mothering eight children.
		Clara, and Mendelssohn, on the other hand, represented a retrenchment of sorts, not a rejection of romantic aesthetics, but an attempt to preserve, assimilate and use as models, the works of the classical greats.
		Clara’s preoccupation with mastering classical technique, and her involvement with her husband’s career also had an effect on her own work.
	www.westfieldnj.com /arbormusic/claraschu.html (707 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Clara: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Reaching her prime before the dawn of recorded sound, Clara Schumann is now sadly only known by report as the perfect champion of her husband Robert's music, an acclaimed virtuoso pianist who had her own international career in European concert halls in the latter half of the 19th century.
		Despite the arrival of eight babies, Clara continued to have concerts regularly, as she was the primary bread-winner in the family.
		Clara's love is so beautifully rendered - a madness of her own, almost - that it is at the same time thrilling and terrifying.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099750511 (1304 words)

	Clara Schumann
		Clara did not begin to talk until age 4, and her parents were suspicious of the possibility that she was deaf.
		During her marriage to Robert Schumann, although he encouraged Clara to continue composing, her time at the piano for performance or composition was relegated to times of the day when Robert would not be bothered (Reich).
		Clara Wieck married Robert Schumann on September 12, 1840, a pianist and composer nine years her senior.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/composers/C_Schumann/C_Schumann.htm (1954 words)

	Amazon.com: Spring Symphony (1999) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara's father is brought to trial but in the end Clara and Robert are married.
		Hirschmeier provides a montage of posters for Clara's concerts, a cut from news of Schumann's inability to marry another female to Clara's performance triumph, a scene where the blind touch Kinski's hands, and a sound edit from orchestral musicians tapping to horses hooves of a moving carriage.
		Kinski captures the transformation of Clara from gawky teenager to emerging beauty, and whilst there is one shot where we see her hands and body playing the piano, otherwise there is no pretence made that she is performing Clara's pieces.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001PE4E?v=glance (1175 words)

	Schumann, Clara Josephine (1819-1896)
		Clara and her father went on concert tours to Hamburg, Paris and other cities.
		Clara contacts to the young Johannes, whom she ghad met in 1853, became closer and he was probably in love with her (later he had his eye on her daughter Julie but Brahms was very unlucky in love).
		Clara Schumann painted by Franz von Lenbach when she was nearly 60 years old.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p050660.htm (492 words)

	Women of Music History, Part I - Clara Wieck Schumann
		An arthritis-like illness caused Clara to cut back on her performing, but she was undaunted, and during this time, became a well-respected conservatory teacher at Frankfurt.
		When looking for information on Clara Schumann, it is often the case that the entry entered under her name is not nearly as lengthy as the entry for her husband, Robert.
		Clara Schumann raised a family, taught extensively and performed as a highly acclaimed pianist for 60 years.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/music_history_retired/23207/2 (300 words)

	Classics for Kids \| Past Shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara Wieck was born in 1819 in the German city of Leipzig.
		Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher who decided even before his daughter was born that she was going to be a famous pianist.
		In addition to composing her own music, Clara Schumann played the first performance of everything that Robert wrote for the piano, and introduced his music all over Europe.
	www.classicsforkids.com /shows/showdesc.asp?id=44 (90 words)

	Clara and Robert Schumann
		She was born Clara Wieck in Leipzig, Germany, on September 13, 1819.
		Clara’s father started teaching her to play the piano when she was five years old.
		In 1840, on the eve of Clara’s twenty-first birthday, the two pianists were married, even though her father didn’t approve at all.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/composers/schumanns.html (1001 words)

	Schumann Clara Wieck
		lara Wieck Schumann was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 and she died in Frankfurt on 20 May 1896.
		Clara's parents were Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873), a music teacher, and Marianne Tromlitz Wieck Bargiel (1797-1872), a soprano and student of Wieck; Clara's father had resolved before her birth that she would be a great musician and child prodigy.
		Clara moved to Berlin in 1857, where she performed, taught, and edited Robert's works and letters.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /schumann_clara_wieck.html (566 words)

	2001-02 Charles River Review: My Clara
		Clara is a true artist, an amazing woman, the equivalent of a modern-day rock star in an era that shunned women, especially in the musical profession.
		The strong-willed Clara is furious, and despite Wieck's threats of taking her life's earnings and belongings, including her piano, she embarks on a concert tour in Europe, alone, acting as both performer and promoter.
		CLARA caresses the delicate petals of a white rose when the wind, as if it were a gentle spirit, sweeps them from her long, slender fingers.
	www.dce.harvard.edu /pubs/charles/2001-02/aellis.html (2755 words)

	INKPOT#99 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SCHUMANN Liederkreis. Romances and Ballades. Terfel/Martineau (DG)
		There is no doubt that Clara was Schumann's most important inspiration and that her father's belligerence was his greatest adversity.
		With great benediction Wieck declared that he would consent to the union if Clara would sacrifice her earnings of the past seven years and if the Schumann's after marriage would turn over two-thirds of their total assets.
		Wieck was charged with gathering evidence to support the objections on grounds of Schumann's dipsomania, but failed to come up with any evidence by the deadline of July 7, 1840.
	inkpot.com /classical/schumliedterf.html (1142 words)

	Medialunchbox - DVD : Spring Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		All three of them share the same passion for music, but the battle the two men fight for Clara's affections is at the same time a fight between different artistic styles and different lifestyles, a war between the generations.
		When Schumann finally wins his Clara, 'Spring Symphony' is the expression of his love and passion for her.
		Writer director Alfred Hirschmeier's film about Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann offers a parallel between Schumann and Wieck's father, who are both seen to profit from their association with Clara, the child prodigy.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00000JN28 (358 words)

	Robert Schumann
		Wieck responded by telling her that because of Schumann's talent and imagination, in 3 years time, he could make him into one of the greatest living pianists, as long as Robert would work hard and steadily at technique.
		Clara introduced him to her friend Ernestine von Fricken who was at the time almost 18 years of age.
		Clara was not willing to marry until she knew they would be comfortable financially.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/composers/schumann.htm (1053 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara’s mother married an acquaintance of her father’s.
		Clara had known Robert Schumann as children and were wed in1840 despite Clara’s fathers refusal to give consent to their marriage.
		He was comitted to a sanitorium in Endenich where Clara was not allowed to see him for two and a half years.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/composers/S/ClaraSchumann.html (148 words)

	News
		Clara Wieck was born in Germany in 1819.
		She was called the Queen of the Piano, and he was mostly known as Clara Wieck’s husband.
		Poor Clara had to practice at night when the children had gone to bed and when Robert had gone out with friends.
	www.greenville.k12.sc.us /websites/wade/jhowell/news.html (520 words)

	Clara Wieck Schumann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann, and one of the most celebrated performers of the century.
		It was he who encouraged her in performance and composition, and at an early age she made a name for herself as a concert pianist.
		Clara composed variations on themes by Robert and vice versa, and together they created a cycle of song settings of the poet Friedrich Rückert (her Opus 12, his Opus 37).
	www.wwnorton.com /classical/composers/cschumann.htm (450 words)

	Clara Schumann, Composer
		Clara was a musician from an early age, making her first musical appearance at age 9 and performing her first piano recital at age 11.
		Robert asked Clara to marry him in 1837, but Clara's parents objected to the marriage since Clara was 18 years old and Robert was 9 years older than her.
		Throughout her life, Clara was well-known as a piano soloist, gaining fame for her teachnical proficiencies, sensitive interpretations of musical works and her ability to express the composer's intent in the music.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=448 (362 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)