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
Brad Wieck Wieck signed and spent 2014 with the Brooklyn Cyclones, posting a 1-1 record and 1.40 ERA in 16 relief appearances. He started 2015 with the Savannah Sand Gnats. In June, he was acquired by the San Diego Padres as the player to be named later in an earlier trade for Alex Torres. The Padres assigned him to the Fort Wayne TinCaps and later promoted him to the Lake Elsinore Storm. In 23 total games started between Savannah, Fort Wayne, and Lake Elsinore, he pitched to a 7-11 record, 4.09 ERA, and 1.40 WHIP. Wieck pitched 2016 with Lake Elsinore, where