[Illustration: No. 12 CLARA WIECK.] Papa Wieck, as he was called, was not very kind to Robert Schumann when the young man confessed that he and Clara loved one another and wished to marry. [Illustration: No. 13 FRIEDRICH WIECK.] But after a while it all turned out happily and they were married. So Clara Wieck became Clara Schumann. Here is a picture of them seated together. [Illustration: No. 14 ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN.] In the sixteen years that Robert Schumann lived after he and Clara Wieck were married he composed lots of music for the piano, besides songs, symphonies, and other kinds of compositions. He was a teacher in the Leipzig Conservatory. Among his friends were Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and many others. Schumann is best known as a composer of music, although he was also a teacher, a conductor, and a writer upon musical subjects. For many years he was the head of a musical newspaper, which is remembered to this day because of the great work he did in helping people to understand new music and find out new composers. When he was a very young man Schumann wanted to become a pianist, but he unfortunately used a machine that he thought was going to help him play better. It hurt his hand so that he was never able to play well again. Poor Schumann went out of his mind in his last years, and died insane, July 29, 1856. [Illustration: No. 15 CLARA SCHUMANN.] Clara Schumann lived forty years after Robert Schumann died. She was the teacher of many students, some of whom traveled from America to study with her. She, too, was a composer and a concert pianist who played in public from the time she was ten years of age. FACTS ABOUT ROBERT SCHUMANN. 1. Robert Schumann was born at Zwickau, in Saxony, Germany, on June 8, 1810. 2. When Schumann was nine years old he heard the great pianist Ignaz Moscheles play and resolved to become a great pianist. 3. When Schumann was a youth he showed a gift for writing poetry. 4. Schumann's father was a successful book-seller. 5. All through his life Schumann was a great lover of the writings of the German author, Jean Paul (whose full name was Jean Paul Richter). Much of his music shows his high regard for that writer of fairy stories. 6. Schumann was twenty-one years old when he injured his hand and learned that therefore he could not hope to be a pianist. It was then that he made up his mind to be a composer. 7. Schumann had enough means to live in comfort. He was not poor, as were Mozart, Schubert, and some others. 8. Robert and Clara Schumann had eight children, and some of Schumann's best music was written to interest his children. 9. Schumann died July 29, 1856. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ROBERT SCHUMANN.