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
Clara Perra Unfortunately, she was transferred to a more suitable hospital only when the symptoms of encephalitis became more evident. And so, while doctors were studying her case without finding a cure, Clara Perra passed away, never realising that the medical profession she had abandoned in order to devote herself to the study of music, had been incapable of saving her. Clara Perra Clara Perra (Naples November 1954 - Roseto degli Abruzzi - August 2015) was an Italian solo percussionist , music educator, pianist and composer. She was the first Italian woman to hold concerts of percussion instruments and to teach them