On the occassion of the 193rd birthday of Clara Shumann, Google pays its tribute via the popular Google Doodle. Clara was born on September 12, 1819 and is a renowned pianist who revolutionized the ways of piano narration. The German was well known for her compositions of Romantic Era.

The Google doodle shows her playing a piano to eight children as its logo makes a subtle yet colorful appearance in the background.

With a bent for playing the piano since her childhood, the Leipzig-born, Clara Josephine Wieck (maiden name), had amazed crowds in her first solo performance at the age of 11 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concert. Even as a child she never ceased to leave her audience dumbstruck at her skill for playing the most difficult notes of illustrious musicians and composers.

As she grew up she took up challenges playing the most difficulat compositions of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and more.

She later married a German music composer Robert Alexander Shumann who was a student of her father, Friedrich Wieck by staying at their house.

Violinist Joseph Joachim was one of her performance partners. She had to face a lot of troubles and work for the sake of money which was required for the treatment of Robert Shumann, who died on July 29, 1856.

Her later life was not any better as Clara Shumann had been deprived of her senses of hearing. She was paralysed and had to depend on a wheel chair. She had heart complaints and died of a stroke on May 20, 1896.

(AW- Anil)