"In this house, on 13th September 1819, Clara Schumann (née Wieck) beheld the light of the world."
This dedication to the celebrated pianist, Clara Schumann, was engraved in the memorial plaque which hung above the door to the first floor apartment in the house Hohe Lilie, until its destruction at the end of the Second World War.
Clara Wieck married the composer Robert Schumann in 1840 and lived with him in Leipzig until their departure in 1844 (memorial centre: Schumann-Haus, Inselstraße 18). As executor of her late husband's legacy, pianist responsible for the initiation of a distinct, ground-breaking school of interpretation, pedagogue and composer, she died in Frankfurt in 1896.
Clara's father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher, musical instrument dealer and proprietor of a music hire library. He lived in this house on the corner between Preußergäßchen 48 and Neumarkt 28 from Easter 1818 until Easter 1821. The construction of the new Althoff department store (1912-14) did not extend to this plot. The Wieck family subsequently resided in apartments in Salzgäßchen, house 407 (1821-25), Selliers Hof on the corner of Reichsstraße and Grimmaische Straße from 1825 until 1835 (see memorial plaque on the Handelshof) and, from 1835 to 1840, in the Nikolaistraße, house 555.
Internet:
www.schumann-verein.de
Wikipedia:
Clara Wieck
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Station 18, Bach-Museum / Bach Museum |
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Standort Geburtshaus Clara Wieck / Site of Clara Wieck's birth house (Music Trail station 19) |
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Station 20, Standort Altes Konservatorium / Site of Old Conservatoire |
