Clara Schumann Wieck learned to compose, and from childhood to middle age she produced a good body of work. Clara wrote that "composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound". At age fourteen she wrote her piano concerto, with some help from Robert Schumann, and performed it at age sixteen at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Mendelssohn conducting. As she grew older, however, she became more preoccupied with other responsibilities in life and found it hard to compose regularly,
Steve Wieck of Elric, and named their magazine after him. Stephan Wieck wrote the "Shadowrun" adventure "Queen Euphoria" (1990). The Wiecks had befriended the company Lion Rampant, and when that company encountered financial trouble, White Wolf and Lion Rampant decided to merge into the new White Wolf Game Studio, with Stewart Wieck and Mark Rein-Hagen as co-owners. Steve graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991 and left White Wolf to begin some MBA-equivalent training at GE. Steve returned from GE with two years of business training, and Stewart made Steve the CEO of White Wolf in 1993. The company encountered