| 31/3/1828 | Robert Schumann meets Clara Wieck. At the occasion he heard her play the piano. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 0/8/1828 | Robert Schumann starts his piano lessons under Friedrich Wieck [Schumann, Clara][Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 11/5/1829 | Robert Schumann leaves Friedrich Wieck to go to Heidelberg [Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 20/10/1830 | Robert Schumann returns to Friedrich Wieck to continue his piano studies [Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 8/6/1831 | Robert Schumann calls Clara Wieck 'Zilia' in is poems. This relates to the "Schmetterlinge" poems. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 0/4/1835 | Clara Wieck returnes from her concert tour. After her return she spent much time with Robert Schumann. Schumann was secretly engaged to Ernestine von Fricken, but he started to withdraw in August after he heard of Ernestine's heritage. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 25/11/1835 | First kiss between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Friedrich Wieck would take his daughter to Dresden in January 1836 to keep her away from Schumann. [Schumann, Clara][Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 7/2/1836 | Secret meeting between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck in Dresden. Clara's father Friedrich Wieck disapproved of their meetings and thus they met in secret. The meeting lasted until 11 February 1836. [Schumann, Clara][Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 0/6/1836 | Clara Wieck returns Robert Schumann's letters [Schumann, Clara] |
| 14/8/1837 | Secret engagement between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck [Schumann, Clara] |
| 13/9/1837 | Robert Schumann asks Friedrich Wieck for Clara's hand. He did this on her eighteenth birthday, but Friedrich Wieck refused his daughter permission to marry Schumann. [Schumann, Clara][Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 15/6/1839 | Clara Wieck asks for legal permission to marry. This was because her father refused to let her marry Robert Schumann. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 17/4/1840 | Robert Schumann visites Clara Wieck in Berlin. The visit lasted from 17 April to 30 April. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 1/8/1840 | Legal permission for the marriage between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck is granted. The Court of Appeal allowed them to marry. Before that Clara's father Friedrich Wieck had stopped the marriage. [Schumann, Clara][Wieck, Friedrich] |
| 31/3/1841 | Clara Schumann first performs under her married name at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. She had maaied Robert Schumann on 12 September 1840. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 14/2/1842 | Clara Schumann leaves for a concert tour. With her husband Robert Schumann she travelled to Hamburg. She continued alone to Kopenhagen. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 25/1/1844 | Start of a concert tour of Robert and Clara Schumann to Russia [Schumann, Clara] |
| 30/5/1844 | Clara and Robert Schumann return from their Russian tour [Schumann, Clara] |
| 3/10/1844 | Clara and Robert Schumann visit Dresden [Schumann, Clara] |
| 13/12/1844 | Clara and Robert Schumann move to Dresden [Schumann, Clara] |
| 12/8/1845 | Beethoven statue in Bonn unveiled. It was created by Ernst Hähnel and unveiled in honour of the 75th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Franz Liszt was actively involved in the project and donated over 10,000 francs. Schlegel had been the head of the organising committee but he died in May, 1845. Professor Heinrich Breidenstein, who had first expressed the idea, took over his position. The ceremony was attended by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Hector Berlioz, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, Charles Hallé, Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot, Lola Montez, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Maria Kalergis. [Berlioz, Hector][Hallé, Charles][Lind, Jenny][Liszt, Franz][Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix][Meyerbeer, Giacomo][Montez, Lola][Viardot-Garcia, Pauline] |
| 0/11/1846 | Start of the concert tour of Clara and Robert Schumann to Vienna. They visited Brno and Prague as well. They took their daughters Elise and Marie with them. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 4/2/1847 | Clara and Robert Schumann return from their concert tour to Vienna [Schumann, Clara] |
| 5/5/1849 | Clara and Robert Schumann flee from Dresden. Clara was seven months pregnant and they fled for the revolution. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 12/6/1849 | Clara and Robert Scumann return to Dresden. They had previously left Dresden in May for the revolution. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 30/7/1853 | Robert Schumann suffers a stroke during a visit to Bonn |
| 30/9/1853 | Clara and Robert Schumann meet Johannes Brahms. the 12-year old Marie Schumann was also present. [Brahms, Johannes][Schumann, Clara] |
| 27/10/1853 | Last concert conducted by Roberrt Schumann in Düsseldorf |
| 6/12/1853 | Sophie Offermans sings a work by Robert Schumann accompanied by Clara Schumann. She sang a part from "Der Rose Pilgerfahrt" by Schumann in The Hague. Clara Schumann accompanied her on the piano. Robert Schumann was in the public. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 27/2/1854 | Robert Schumann jumps from a bridge into the Rhine. His attempt to commit suicide failed because fishers helped him out of the water. |
| 4/3/1854 | Robert Schumann is committed to the asylum in Endenich. He had tried to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge over the Rhine after throwing his wedding ring into the water. Fishers helped him out of the water but he tried to jump from their boat. |
| 25/4/1854 | Clara Schumann hears Liszt's "Piano sonata in B Minor" and strongly dislikes it. She received it on this day and it was dedicated to her husband Robert. Johannes Brahms played it for her and she strongly disliked it. The piece was performed in public in 1857 by Hans von Bülow and it would become both popular and influential. [Brahms, Johannes][Bülow, Hans von][Liszt, Franz][Schumann, Clara] |
| 14/9/1854 | Robert Schumann is able to correspond with his wife Clara. He was committed to an institution in Endenich after a suicide attempt in a state of confusion. From now on he would correspond for seven months with his wife. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 23/7/1856 | Clara Schumann is called to Endenich. The situation of her husband Robert was supposed to be critical, but they didn't meet on this day. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 27/7/1856 | Clara Schumann is finally admitted to her husband Robert. Robert Schumann was committed to an institution in Endenich. She hadn't seen him for two years because she wasn't admitted to him. Two days later he would die. [Schumann, Clara] |
| 26/11/1937 | First performance of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto. It was performed by Georg Kulenkampff and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Karl Böhn was the conductor. The manuscript had been given by Clara Schumann to Joseph Joachim. Joachim had stated in his will that it should not be performed until 1956, 100 years after Schumann's death. This was because he thought that the piece showed signs of Schumann's mental illness. Joachim's heirs gave permission for an earlier performance. [Böhm, Karl][Joachim, Joseph][Schumann, Clara] |
