Clara Schumann's life practically begs to be made the subject of an opera, and one is now being created on commission for the University of Maryland School of Music and the Clarice Smith ...

Clara Wieck Schumann was her father’s prodigy, a composer’s wife and a musician in her own right. Her story is still inspiring musicians today.

But this is not actually Clara's diary, it was Clara and her husband Robert's diary — their marriage diary. And by all accounts, it was the primary way the Schumanns communicated with each other.