At 18, this composer studied with Friedrich Wieck & met Wieck's 9-year-old daughter Clara, his future wife
Eugene ... Friedrich Wieck, 
her father-teacher- ... ing with his plan for his daughter's life, he named her Clara, 
... ter her fifth birthday.9 Wieck's goal was to produce a virtuoso ... Robert 
Schumann was eighteen years old and Clara ... arranged to study piano with her 
father.