She was the daughter of Robert Schumann's piano teacher. She was much younger and her father did not approve because he wanted her to focus on playing the piano, due to the fact she was a prodigy.
They met in the household of Robert Shumann's piano teacher, Friedrich Wieck. Friedrich's daughter Clara was a young piano prodigy who caught the eye of Shumann.
1840, otherwise called Schumann's "Year of Song." It was this year that Clara became legally old enough to give her own consent to be married (her father Friedrich Wieck opposed the marriage).
Robert Schumann, born Zwickau, 8th June 1810 died Endenich, 29th July 1856, was a classical composer. Some of his compositions were -
4 Symphonies - including No.1 "Spring" and No.3...
Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann the composer. She was born in Leipzig on September 13, 1819 and died in Frankfurt on May 20, 1896 and was a composer in her own right.