Clara Schumann: Most Famous Female Composer
Clara Schumann is one of the, if not the most famous female composer, especially during her lifetime in the romantic era.
She was born on the 13th September 1819 in Leipzig as Clara Wieck. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a music pedagogue and famous piano teacher, and did everything to educate Clara as a pianist, but also as a composer, which was not usual by this time. She wrote „piano trio op.17“ when she was only 14 years old. Another famous piece of her was the „piano concerto op.7“. It did not take a long time for her to become famous all over europe as a pianist, but also as a composer.
Against her fathers will, she married one of her fathers students, Robert Schumann, which was really hard because they had to have the approval by law for their marriage. Later they had 8 children, and Clara earned the most money in their household, which was not usual by this time.
She did not want to be the typical child-raising, cooking and cleaning mother. Clara and Johannes Brahms, also a famous composer from the romantic era, were really good friends. Johannes Brahms always looked after the children when Clara was at a concert, but also a lot more often. It is told that Brahms was in love with Clara, but she only loved her husband Robert. If …show more content…
Clara Schumann was also one of the very first pianists to play a pice from memory, without any notepaper. She is a totally underrated person, as pianist and composer. It is always said, Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann, but actually, it should be Robert, who was the husband of Clara Schumann, because Clara was much more famous than Robert and earned a lot more money. Women are not just „the wife of…“, they are mch more, people just only want to see it like that, because women are just there to raise children, cook and do laundry. You do not want a women to be intelligent and invent things. This way of thinking did not change
She was born on the 13th September 1819 in Leipzig as Clara Wieck. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a music pedagogue and famous piano teacher, and did everything to educate Clara as a pianist, but also as a composer, which was not usual by this time. She wrote „piano trio op.17“ when she was only 14 years old. Another famous piece of her was the „piano concerto op.7“. It did not take a long time for her to become famous all over europe as a pianist, but also as a composer.
Against her fathers will, she married one of her fathers students, Robert Schumann, which was really hard because they had to have the approval by law for their marriage. Later they had 8 children, and Clara earned the most money in their household, which was not usual by this time.
She did not want to be the typical child-raising, cooking and cleaning mother. Clara and Johannes Brahms, also a famous composer from the romantic era, were really good friends. Johannes Brahms always looked after the children when Clara was at a concert, but also a lot more often. It is told that Brahms was in love with Clara, but she only loved her husband Robert. If …show more content…
Clara Schumann was also one of the very first pianists to play a pice from memory, without any notepaper. She is a totally underrated person, as pianist and composer. It is always said, Clara was the wife of Robert Schumann, but actually, it should be Robert, who was the husband of Clara Schumann, because Clara was much more famous than Robert and earned a lot more money. Women are not just „the wife of…“, they are mch more, people just only want to see it like that, because women are just there to raise children, cook and do laundry. You do not want a women to be intelligent and invent things. This way of thinking did not change