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
Andreas Staub that of composer Clara Schumann (née Wieck), which appeared on the 100 Deutschmark note between 1990 and 2001. Andreas Staub Andreas Staub (17 October 1806 – 5 April 1839) was an Austrian watercolour painter and lithographer. Staub was born in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in Alsace and committed suicide in Vienna at the age of 32. Of his life little is known. He entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 19 and shortly thereafter was exhibiting his watercolours. Around 1835 he produced a series of lithographs of famous personalities, such as the pianist Sigismund Thalberg, the actress Johanna Franul