Marie Wieck was a German pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer. She was the daughter of renowned piano teacher Friedrich Wieck

Friedrich Wieck

Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck 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 doing international concert tours by age eleven and who later married Robert Schumann...

, and the sister of Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...

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Early life and education

Marie was born in Leipzig. She was trained from an early age in piano and voice by her father Friedrich. Marie's first public appearance was in 1842, when she and her sister Clara performed at a concert in Dresden. She later performed with her father at the Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics. The first Gewandhaus was built in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe. The second opened on 11 December 1884, and was destroyed in the...

 in Leipzig.

Music career

An eminent singer and pianist, Marie sang in concerts with Clara Schumann and also performed with Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim

Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...

's wife, the opera singer Amalie Weiss. Marie was appointed court pianist for the chamber concerts of the Prince of Hohenzollern.

Wieck composed and published several piano works, including Étude

Étude

An étude , is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano...

s for the piano and studies for the voice. She is credited for working to bring German music to the attention of the public, particularly in London, England, where she performed publicly for five seasons. Marie Wieck never married.