Clara Schumann at the age of nine, Clara Wieck performed at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of the mental hospital at Colditz Castle. There, she met another gifted young pianist who had been invited to the musical evening, Robert Schumann, who was nine years older. Schumann admired Clara's playing so much that he asked permission from his mother to stop studying law, which had never interested him much, and take music lessons with Clara's father. While taking lessons, he rented a room in the Wieck household, staying about a year. He would sometimes dress up as a ghost and
Stewart Wieck Stewart Wieck Stewart Douglas Wieck (May 10, 1968 June 22, 2017) was one of the founders of the publishing company, White Wolf, Inc. He was also one of the original writers of . Stewart Wieck was born in Freeport, Illinois in 1968. He and his brother Steve Wieck had their first published work in 1986 with the adventure "The Secret in the Swamp" for "Villains & Vigilantes" from FGU. Later that same year, while they were still in high school, the brothers began self-publishing their own magazine, "Arcanum"; Stewart soon retitled the magazine as "White Wolf", publishing the first issue