Robert Schumann Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured Schumann that Robert could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. In 1840, after a long and acrimonious legal battle with Wieck, who opposed the marriage, Schumann married Wieck's daughter
Andreas Staub that of composer Clara Schumann (née Wieck), which appeared on the 100 Deutschmark note between 1990 and 2001. Andreas Staub Andreas Staub (17 October 1806 – 5 April 1839) was an Austrian watercolour painter and lithographer. Staub was born in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in Alsace and committed suicide in Vienna at the age of 32. Of his life little is known. He entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 19 and shortly thereafter was exhibiting his watercolours. Around 1835 he produced a series of lithographs of famous personalities, such as the pianist Sigismund Thalberg, the actress Johanna Franul