Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course o
Portrait by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1857
Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph
Schönefeld church, where the Schumanns married on 12 September 1840
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most
Clara Schumann
…Schubert, gave her an autographed copy of Schubert's Erlkönig, inscribing it "To the celebrated artist, Clara Wieck." Chopin described her playing to Franz Liszt, who came to hear one of Wieck's concerts and subsequently praised her extravagantly in a letter that was published in the Parisian Revue et Gazette…
Franz Lizt, vers 14-15 ans, Jean Vignaud [fr] (1826)
Marie d'Agoult, Henri Lehmann (1843)
Sigismond Thalberg (1836)