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
Clara Edwards (composer) anthologies. published by G. Schirmer unless noted published by G. Schirmer unless noted published by G. Schirmer unless noted Clara Edwards (composer) Clara Edwards (April 17, 1880 in Decoria Township, Minnesota – January 17, 1974 in New York, New York) was an American singer, pianist, and composer of art songs. She also used the pseudonym Bernard Haigh. She was born Clara Gerlich in Decoria Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota. She received her education from the Mankato State Normal School and the Cosmopolitan School of Music in Chicago. She married physician John Milton Edwards before finishing her degree, and the couple