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  • Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873)

    Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873)
    Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck (18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873) was a noted German piano teacher, voice teacher, owner of a piano store, and music reviewer. He is remembered as the teacher of his daughter, Clara, a child prodigy who was undertaking international concert tours by age eleven and who later married her father's pupil Robert Schumann, in defiance of her father's extreme objections. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wieck' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Lord Byron (1788–1824)

    Lord Byron (1788–1824)
    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

    Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
    Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. In a short lifespan of just nearly 32 years, Schubert was a prolific composer, writing some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Schubert' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Mary (Godwin) Shelley (1797–1851)

    Mary (Godwin) Shelley (1797–1851)
    Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818). - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)

    Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
    Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Mendelssohn' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

    Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
    Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann' target="blank">Wikipedia</a>

  • Clara Schumann (1819–1896)

    Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
    Clara Schumann (13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era. She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public. Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann. - <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Schumann' target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>