One spring day in 1824, four-year-old Clara Wieck sat in the nursery with her three younger brothers, Alwin, Gustav, and baby Victor.
As a celebrated composer, she wrote a piano concerto, chamber music, songs, pieces for piano, and her most well-known work, the Piano Trio in G Minor ..
She managed to have a sixty-year concert career, marry Robert Schumann and oversee his estate, plus raise their eight children.
She achieved this with a new style of playing the piano.
She wanted the audience to feel love, sorrow, joy, and beauty.
Clara wanted to do more than entertain.
At the age of eighteen, she was named Royal and Imperial Virtuosa-the highest musical honor in Austria.
She became a child prodigy and made her debut at nine and went on to have the longest concert career of any woman in the nineteenth century.
From the moment four-year-old Clara Wieck Schumann heard music coming from her father\'s piano store, she wanted to play the piano.
Clara heard the glorious strains of music wafting through the house all day long.
The piano music of her father\'s students rang out.
How tragic for Music Master Wieck to have such a daughter! But Clara was not deaf.
Maybe she was deaf.
Nearly five years old and not a single word out of her! The child must be simple.
She had not yet spoken a word.
Clara was always quiet-mute.
Alwin and Gustav babbled in baby-talk, Victor wailed, but Clara was perfectly silent.
One spring day in 1824, four-year-old Clara Wieck sat in the nursery with her three younger brothers, Alwin, Gustav, and baby Victor
