Greatly admired Pianist of the Romantic era who had an influential 61-year concert career that revolutionized the piano recital.
She embarked on a concert tour throughout Europe in 1830 when she was 11. Attendance at her Paris stop was ruined by a cholera outbreak.
She did not hold
Her mother, Marianne Wieck, was a successful Leipzig singer, and her father, Friedrich, was a piano and voice Teacher who monopolized his daughter's career.
She was married to legendary Composer Robert Schumann.
