Tune in Today: Clara Wieck Schumann’s Piano Concerto

The piano prodigy was also a composer. She began writing this composition when she was just 13.

Clara Schumann was an accomplished pianist and composer. Lithograph, 1839, by Andreas Staub. Public Domain

The day after their wedding, Robert Schumann gave his wife, Clara Wieck Schumann, a diary. An inscription on the first page reads:

“My beloved wife, this little book that I am starting today has for us a deep significance: It is to be a diary of all that concerns us in our domestic and married life; to be a record of our wishes and our hopes, and the means whereby we may convey to one another any requests we may have to make, for which words may not suffice.”