Clara Schumann at the age of nine, Clara Wieck performed at the Leipzig home of Dr. Ernst Carus, director of the mental hospital at Colditz Castle. There, she met another gifted young pianist who had been invited to the musical evening, Robert Schumann, who was nine years older. Schumann admired Clara's playing so much that he asked permission from his mother to stop studying law, which had never interested him much, and take music lessons with Clara's father. While taking lessons, he rented a room in the Wieck household, staying about a year. He would sometimes dress up as a ghost and
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