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Born Clara Wieck in 1819, about nine years after her famous husband, Robert, clara schumann enjoyed renown her time as a classical pianists and composer. Her father had fought furiously to keep her from marrying Schumann, with whom he was in a legal dispute at the time, but in the end, the young couple successfully sued for the right to marry. Clara’s considerable talent and reputation at her time was accentuated by the circumstances of her life. Four of her eight children died before her, as did her husband, who took his own life while in an asylum. One of her children also committed suicide while institutionalized. She was forced to be the major source of income for her family, and maintain a schedule of performance and composition.