Friedrich Wieck practice, however, he might not always have lived up to the ideals he described in the book "Piano and Song: How to Teach, How To Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances." When Robert Schumann was living and studying in the Wieck household, he reported seeing Wieck punishing his nine-year-old son, Alwyn, for playing the violin poorly, tearing at his hair and yelling, "You wretch, you scoundrel, is this the way you try to please your father?" Clara seemed unconcerned at the violent scene. Shocked, Schumann wrote in his diary, "Am I among human beings?" Besides the
Dorothea Wieck Dorothea Wieck Dorothea Wieck (3 January 1908 in Davos, Switzerland – 19 February 1986 in Berlin, West Germany) was a German theatre and film actress. Wieck was born Dorothea Bertha Olivia Wieck and grew up in southern Germany and Sweden. She was descended from musician Clara Schumann. Wieck launched her acting career on stage in 1924 and made her screen debut in German films in 1926, appearing in several silent films. She became widely known through her leading role in the 1931 film "Mädchen in Uniform" ("Girls in Uniform"). Wieck appeared in around 50 films and played on the stages