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By Zachariah Friesen

Clara Schumann

1. Clara Wieck was a child prodigy virtuoso pianist and composer in Leipzig in the early 1800s.
2. Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann met at a concert Clara was playing a concert for a mental institute more specifically Colditz Castle. She was just 9 years old at the time and a decade later, they married.
3. At the age of 13, she was one of the first to perform from memory, which is now standard practice for all pianists.
4. In one of the greatest pairings of the greatest virtuosos, Niccolo Paganini agreed to play a concert with Clara while both were on tour in Paris. It was also the greatest pairing of virtuosos that no one heard, as thousands fled Paris because of a cholera outbreak. Continue reading ’10 Facts about Clara Schumann’