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PROLOGUE

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Friedrich Wieck (1785 - 1873), father of Clara Schumann

Friedrich Wieck grew up as the son of a merchant in the small town of Pretzsch by the river Elbe, located between Torgau and Wittenberg. After only a short stay at St Thomas School in Leipzig, he went to grammar school in Torgau and subsequently studied theology in Wittenberg. His musical training was highly unsystematic. After the obligatory trial sermon in Dresden, he did not seek a parish office but became a private tutor. He spent the following nine years with various noble families in Thuringia. Wieck was a conscientious and good teacher; he applied various progressive education methods with his pupils, such as those of Rousseau, Basedow and Pestalozzi. When and where Wieck studied composition is still not clear to this day. In 1815, however, he sent some songs to Carl Maria von Weber, who reviewed the compositions in detail. After that, Wieck had the works printed.

At the age of 30, Wieck gave up his position as private tutor and looked around for a new field of activity. With the financial support of a friend, he settled in Leipzig as a piano teacher and owner of a piano and music shop before 1815. The ambitious Friedrich Wieck ran his company until his departure for Dresden in 1840, letting, tuning, r

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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