Schumann and Clara

 

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Schumann and Clara

 

 

 

There is a couple that comes to mind when you think of a musician's love.

 

It is Robert Alexander Schumann(1810~ 1856) and his wife Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann(1819 ~ 1896).

 

Today, I'm going to talk about the love between these two.

 

 

 

 

Schumann, 18, visits Friedrich Wieck(1785-1873), a famous piano educator in Leipzig, to become a pianist.

 

Wieck recognizes Schumann's talent at a glance and decides to accept him as a disciple.

 

 

 

 

Schumann became a pupil of Wieck and lodged at his house,

where his nine-year-old young daughter Clara,

who showed tremendous talent for piano, lived.

 

 

 

Clara's mother ran away from home with the rest of her brothers except Clara because of her father's coercive nature, which made Clara feel lonely.

 

 

 

For Clara, Schumann was the only way to talk openly.

 

Eventually, they fell in love, and they promised to get married.

 

 

 

 

However, Wieck, Clara's father and Schumann's teacher, opposed the marriage.

 

Because Schumann's future was uncertain.

 

 

 

 

Schumann practiced by tying his finger to a string and hanging it from the ceiling because he was not satisfied with the movement of his fourth finger, which caused him to lose his sense of feeling.

 

He was a pianist who couldn't play the piano with no sense in his fingers numb.

 

 

 

Clara, on the other hand, was growing up to be a recognized pianist at the time, so it seems natural that Wieck opposed marriage.

 

 

 

They tried to get married in the year Clara turned 18, but they ended up in court because of Wieck's opposition.

 

And after a three-year legal battle, the court acknowledges the thier marriage, and sentences Wieck to 18 days in prison.

 

However, the long-standing case ends three years later when Wieck apologizes to Schumann and Clara.

 

 

 

After marriage, Schumann continues her busy life with music criticism and creation, and Clara continues her happy marriage by contributing to promoting her husband's work to the world.

 

 

 

However, Schumann had a family history.

 

Besides, it was a mental illness.

 

Schumann, unwilling to be a burden to Clara, jumps into the Rhine, but even this is rescued by a passing fish boat.

 

Eventually, Schumann voluntarily enters a mental hospital, thinking that he can no longer be a burden, where he ends his life.

 

 

 

 

And Clara also remembers Schumann all her life, and lives a distance from the upcoming love.

 

And Clara remembers Schumann and leaves a diary.

 

"I felt his breath playing Schumann's music, and I could hear his voice, and my whole body seemed to melt into his music."

 

 

 

 

I'll upload Schumann's Humoresque (Op. 20).

 

It's a song that Schumann wrote for her lover Clara.

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUEjXbgYj0