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Clara Wieck Schumann Volume 7, Issue 2 The Kapralova Society Journal Fall 2009 A Journal of Women in Music Clara Schumann: A Composer’s Wife as Composer Eugene Gates In an age when musical talent in a as little as I spoke. But I had female was seldom developed beyond the always been accustomed to level of an accomplishment--a means of en- hear a great deal of piano hancing her matrimonial prospects--Clara playing and my ear became Schumann, née Wieck, received an envi- more sensitive to musical able musical education, and enjoyed a bril- sounds than to those of liant performing career that kept her before speech.2 the public for more than half a century. Best remembered today as one of the foremost Clara inherited her prodigious musical pianists of the nineteenth century, and as the gifts from both parents. Friedrich Wieck devoted wife and musical helpmate of Rob- (1785-1873), though largely self-educated in ert Schumann, Clara Schumann was also music (he held a degree in theology), was a highly respected during her lifetime as a shrewd businessman and a remarkable composer1--a fact rarely mentioned in music teacher of piano and singing. Obsessed with history textbooks. This article examines her a burning ambition to acquire musical distinc- Special points of interest: life and works, and the forces that impeded tion, he was also an opportunist who ex- her progress as a musical creator. ploited the talents of his immediate family to The details of Clara Wieck's early enhance his reputation as a teacher.3 years are preserved in a diary which Clara's mother, Marianne Tromlitz Clara Schumann Friedrich Wieck, her father-teacher- Wieck (1797-1872), was an uncommonly tal- Jennifer Higdon manager, began for her when she was ented singer and pianist. She had studied seven years old. Until Clara reached her with Wieck in her childhood and, in compli- nineteenth year, he either wrote or super- ance with his wish, again become his pupil vised almost every entry--an indication of after their marriage. Marianne appeared fre- the extent to which he controlled all facets of quently as soprano soloist in the Leipzig Ge- her life. The first entry reads: wandhaus Subscription Concerts during the 1816-17 season, and performed piano con- I was born at Leipzig, Sept. certos by Ries, Dussek, and Field on the 13th 1819, . and re- same platform in 1821, 1822 and 1823.4 ceived the name Clara Jo- Marianne's public appearances were Inside this issue: sephine. My father kept extremely important to Wieck; his prestige as a musical lending-library a music educator increased with every con- E. Gates: Clara Schumann: A Com- 1 and carried on a small busi- cert she gave. But having never aspired to a poser’s Wife as Composer ness in pianofortes. Since performing career, it was not without protest both he and my mother were that she assumed the role of a concert artist 5 C. Reitz: Vernacular and Classical: 9 much occupied in teaching, for the advancement of her husband's fame. An Appalachian Marriage in the and besides that my mother Her growing resentment eventually led to re- Work of Jennifer Higdon practised from one to two bellion. On May 12, 1824, with Clara and in- hours a day, I was chiefly left fant son Viktor in tow, she fled to her parents’ New publications and CD releases 7,8,12 to the care of the maid . home in Plauen, and arranged for a legal She was not very fluent of separation.6 She was granted a divorce the speech, and it may well following year. Because the court ruled that have been owing to this that Clara must be restored to the custody of her I did not begin to pronounce father on her fifth birthday, the child had little even single words until I was direct contact with her mother during most of between four and five, and her formative years.7 up to that time understood Even before Clara's birth, Wieck had Page 2 The Kapralova Society Journal Clara Schumann resolved that if she were to be a girl, he would mould her into a "Her compositions, like the young artist herself, are among the performing artist of the highest rank. Female concert pianists most remarkable newcomers in the world of art."16 Spohr was were then still rare, and he knew that an important one would not the only composer to praise Clara's creative talent; Felix attract considerable attention. Her success would make him Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, and Robert Schumann--the man famous as the leading piano teacher in all of Europe. In keep- who would later become her husband--were also early admir- ing with his plan for his daughter's life, he named her Clara, ers of her music. meaning "illustrious."8 Robert Schumann was eighteen years old and Clara Clara’s formal musical education began a few days af- was nine when they first met at the home of mutual friends in ter her fifth birthday.9 Wieck's goal was to produce a virtuoso Leipzig in 1828. Enchanted by her playing, Schumann soon pianist who would also be a well-rounded musician, and he be- arranged to study piano with her father. In 1830, he took up lieved that "the whole education, from earliest youth, must have residence in the Wieck household as a boarder-pupil, and reference to this end."10 In keeping with this philosophy, he su- soon became close friends with Clara. Even after he moved pervised Clara's every waking moment. Her academic studies into his own quarters, he continued to visit her daily. When were squeezed into the few hours not taken up by music les- Clara was on tour, the two friends corresponded regularly. sons, piano practice, and the long daily walks that her father Not long after meeting Clara, Schumann had mused in prescribed for every member of his household. She attended his diary, "It's amazing that there are no female composers.. a local primary school for six months in 1825, and was then Women could perhaps be regarded as the frozen, firm em- sent to the Noack Institute, a larger school, for the better part of bodiment of music."17 It was Clara who changed his mind a year. Her general education was limited to the time spent at about the absence of female composers. Her first published these two schools, and her hours of attendance were short- compositions, Quatre Polonaises, written in 1830, were ened to accommodate her music studies. She was taught only brought out in February of 1831 as her op. 1. The young com- those subjects that her father deemed necessary for her future poser saved a copy especially for "Herr Schumann, who lives career: reading, writing, and, with tutors, a smattering of with us since Michaelmas, and studies music." 18 While the French and English--the languages she would need for her polonaises seldom rise above the level of exceptionally well- concert tours. 11 crafted salon music, they are highly sophisticated works, for In contrast to her modest academic background, an eleven-year-old. Clara's musical education was extraordinary by any standard. As the publication of these pieces suggests, Wieck’s By the age of seven, she was spending at least three hours a plans for Clara's future were not confined exclusively to per- day at the piano--one hour for a lesson with her father, and two formance, but extended to the realm of composition as well. hours for practice.12 Formal training in theory and composition He was justifiably proud of his daughter's productive talent, began when she was barely ten. Her instructors for these sub- and hoped that she might one day emerge as an important jects were Christian Theodore Weinlig, Cantor of St. Thomas creative figure--a representative of the "new Romantic" Church, and Heinrich Dorn, director of the Leipzig Opera. school. He alluded to this in a letter to his friend Music Direc- Other Leipzig teachers taught her violin and score reading. tor Riem of Bremen: “I shall have much to say to you when we Wieck later sent her to Dresden to study advanced composi- meet about the new Romantic school in which Chopin, Pixis, tion and orchestration with Carl Reissiger, and voice with Jo- Liszt in Paris and several of Robert Schumann's disciples hann Aloys Miksch. She also worked with the finest instructors here write (and perhaps Clara promises to write).”19 in the cities where she toured; while concertizing in Berlin in Evidence of Clara's maturing creative powers is al- 1837, for instance, she had counterpoint lessons with Sieg- ready apparent in her Caprices en forme de Valse, op. 2, is- fried Dehn.13 sued in 1832. In the summer of 1833, she composed several On November 8, 1830, the eleven year-old Clara other piano pieces and began an orchestral overture.20 One Wieck made her official professional debut in a solo recital at of her new works, Romance variée, op. 3, which she dedi- the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Her programme included bravura cated to Schumann, was published that same summer. works by Kalkbrenner, Herz, and Czerny, and two of her own Knowing that Robert was already working on a set of piano compositions--Variations on an Original Theme for piano, pieces based on the theme from this composition (brought out and a song, sung by assisting artist Henriette Grabau. The a few months later as his Impromptus on a Romance by critics had nothing but praise for her work.
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