4 A Child at the Piano During the 1800s almost all the famous composers were men It was very unusual for a woman to be a highly thought of composer or musician Clara Schumann was different She started as a child prodigy Later she became a famous composer
6 Clara Wieck was born on September 13 1819 She was born in Leipzig Saxony in today's Germany Clara's mother Mariane was a talented singer and piano teacher Her father Friedrich was a piano teacher too The Wieck house was full of music B B SHARP Clara's mother often sang at a famous concert hall in Leipzig called the Gewandhaus
STATES SMALL North Sea NORWAY SWEDEN Baltic Sea Copenhagen RUSSIAN EMPIRE Hamburg BAVARI Berlin Danzig PRUSSIA Leipzig SAXONY Prague FRANCE NETHERLAN DENMARK RUSSIA Bonn SWITZERLAND Munich Venice Vienna AUSTRIAN EMPIRE Budapest SARDINIA Adriatic Sea PAPAL STATES OTTOMAN EMPIRE 7
