Clara Schumann Birthday - 13 September 2012

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Clara Schumann Was Born on 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896 was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianistsof the Romantic era. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. She and her husband encouraged Johannes Brahms, and she was the first pianist to give public performances of some of Brahms' works, notably the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.

Clara Josephine Wieck was born in Leipzig on 13 September 1819 to Friedrich and Marianne Wieck . Her parents divorced when she was four years old; Clara was raised by her father. In March 1828, at the age of eight, the young Clara Wieck performed at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of a mental hospital at Colditz Castle, and met another gifted young pianist invited to the musical evening named Robert Schumann, nine years older than she.