He died in an insane asylum. The exact cause is not known. Based on the symptoms, speculation has included tertiary syphilis and brain cancer such as a meningioma, both of which produce auditory hallucinations such as Schumann complained of.
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Her husband, renowned German composer Robert Schumann, died in 1856.
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Weick, she was the daughter of Robert Schumann's Piano teacher.
According to http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Schumann-Clara.htm, Clara Schumann was trained from the age of 5 with her father, the well-known pedagogue Friedrich Wieck.
Marta Schumann died in 1994.
Erich Schumann died in 1985.
Maurice Schumann died in 1998.
Paul R. Schumann died in 1946.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink died in 1936.
Karl Moritz Schumann died in 1904.
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink died in 1958.
Frances Schumann Howell died in 1994.
Hack Schumann died on 1946-03-25.
Horst Schumann died on May 5, 1983 at the age of 77.
Conrad Schumann died on June 20, 1998 at the age of 56.
Georg Schumann - composer - died on 1952-05-23.