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
Stewart Wieck in 2010, immediately founding the company Nocturnal Games, which picked up White Wolf's rights to "Pendragon". He co-designed the fantasy board game "Darkling Plain", which uses 3D graphics created on smartphones. It was announced in 2013 by Nocturnal Media. He co-edited the 1998 book "The Essential World of Darkness", a collection of novels. Wieck is also an author of several novels and a number of short stories. Wieck died June 22, 2017 at the age of 49. Stewart Wieck Stewart Douglas Wieck (May 10, 1968 June 22, 2017) was one of the founders of the publishing company, White Wolf, Inc.