Friedrich Kalkbrenner seriously intended to become Kalkbrenner's pupil, but he changed his mind after this encounter with the celebrated man: Clara Schumann, wife of composer Robert Schumann, and herself an eminent pianist and composer, spent several months in Paris during the year 1839. She met many of the Parisian pianists, Kalkbrenner among them. In a letter home to her father, piano pedagogue Friedrich Wieck, she wrote: German poet and satirist Heinrich Heine in his "Letters on Music from Paris (1840–47)" wrote with biting wit on musical life and musicians in the French capital. Kalkbrenner was the target of some of Heine’s more
Steve Wieck economic problems in 1995–1996, which caused a falling out between Rein-Hagen and the Wiecks, resulting in Rein-Hagen leaving White Wolf. Steve co-designed the "Exalted" role-playing game with Robert Hatch and Justin Achilli, and the game was published in 2001. Steve relinquished his role as CEO in 2002, and Mike Tinney became the new president. Steve left White Wolf to take a seat on CCP's board of directors. In 2004, the Wiecks created DriveThruRPG, an online RPG PDF distributor. DriveThruRPG later merged with RPGnow. Steve Wieck Steve Wieck (also credited as Stephan Wieck) is best known as one of the founders