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Engraved vignette by Book. Raerentzen & Co., 1842
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The Springtime of Love
Clara and Robert Schumann
When the couple first met on 31 March 1828, Clara was still a child. She had just turned eight and a half and was preparing to appear in public for the first time as a pianist, a recital that took place six months later in the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Robert was nine years older and had just arrived in Leipzig to study law but soon began to have piano lessons with Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck, who sold pianos and ran a lending library. Even though he had no musical training, he was also in demand as a teacher. Robert then spent two semesters in Heidelberg, continuing his legal studies, but avoided attending lectures with the same determination that he had demonstrated in Leipzig. On his return to Leipzig he continued his piano lessons with Wieck.
Ever since his childhood he had seen his life reflected in literature and now he proceeded to invent a series of fantasy figures who represented Wieck (Master Raro), Clara (Zilia) and himself. In his case he needed two literary characters to encompass the two sides of his nature: the ebullient Florestan and the profoundly thoughtful Eusebius. These three figures were shortly joined by a fourth one, Charitas, who represented Christel, a female figure who embodied Schumann’s less
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Clara Schumann, née Wieck (1819 - 1896), wife
Clara Wieck (1819 - 1896) at the age of 13
Pencil drawing by Eduard Fechner, 1832
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Clara is the middle of these three girls in this picture.
Clara Wieck with her Vater Friedrich Wieck
Pencil drawing by Eduard Fechner, 1832
Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau
This study by Fercher presents Clara (with pinned up hair) ath the piano, bent over her (in double finish), her father and instructor Friedrich Wieck.
Clara Wieck as 12 years old
Lithograph by Eduard Clemens Fechner, Paris 1832
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Among numerous sketches that show Clara with other young girls or her father in Paris, Fercher, the brother in law of Friedrich, also produced a – lost – painting of the 12 year old child genius. This painting served as a model for a litography of which Fercher sent six printings to Wieck.
Clara Wieck at the age of 15
Litography by Julius Giere, Hannover 1835
Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau
This litography was produced during her very successful performance at the royal court in Hannover. The music notebook in front of her shows the solo part with the beginning of the third movement of her piano concert A minor op. 7, which was neither available in printed version no