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
Steve Wieck Steve Wieck Steve Wieck (also credited as Stephan Wieck) is best known as one of the founders of the publishing company, White Wolf, Inc. He is also one of the original writers of "". Steve Wieck and his brother Stewart Wieck had their first published work in 1986 as 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 in August 1986. The Wiecks were fans