Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck were drawn to each other the moment they met but there were obstacles in the way. Clara was ten years younger and her domineering father Friedrich Wieck Roberts piano teacher was against their relationship as it developed over the years. He saw Robert as a dissolute womaniser and he saw his own reflected glory disappearing if Claras career prospects as a pianist diminished. But the couple did marry with help from the judiciary and had a happy life together so happ