Question: Clara Schumann, was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, together they encouraged who, which was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family? 
Context: Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a notable German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher.  He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation.  Josef Hofmann called von Sauer "a truly great virtuoso."  Martin Krause, another Liszt pupil, called von Sauer "the legitimate heir of Liszt; he has more of his charm and geniality than any other Liszt pupil." Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck (18 August 1785 – 6 October 1873, aged 88) 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 undertaking international concert tours by age eleven and who later married her father's pupil Robert Schumann, in defiance of her father's extreme objections.  As Clara Schumann, she became one of the most famous pianists of her time.  Another of Wieck's daughters, Marie Wieck, also had a career in music, although not nearly so illustrious as Clara's.  Other pupils included Hans von Bülow. Johannes Brahms (] ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.  Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria.  His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow. Clara S, musikalische Tragödie is a play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek.  It was first published in 1982.  The play depicts a fictional meeting in 1929 between nineteenth-century German composer Clara Schumann and Gabrielle D'Annunzio, a late nineteenth/early twentieth century Italian author. Peter J. Kitson is a British academic and author specializing in the literary history of the Romantic era.  He is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia, having moved there from the University of Dundee in 2013.  His doctoral thesis at the University of Hull was on 'The Seventeenth-century Influence on the Early Religious and Political Thought of S. T. Coleridge, 1790-1805'.  Kitson has authored and edited many books and many articles on Romantic era literature, and has specialised in theories of race, slavery, and empire in the period.  His publications include the important "Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period", which provided modern readers with a substantial body of eighteenth-century writings about race and slavery.  Kitson has served as President of the English Association (2007–10) and President of the British Association for Romantic Studies (2007-2011).  He has received numerous research awards and Fellowships including awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Huntington Library and the Carnegie Trust for Scotland.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the English Association. Geliebte Clara ("Beloved Clara") is a Franco-German-Hungarian 2008 film, directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms, her last film before her 2014 death, about the pianist Clara Schumann and her marriage with the composer Robert Schumann. The Variations on the name "Abegg" in F major is a piece (theme with variations) for piano by Robert Schumann, composed between 1829 and 1830 and published as his Opus 1.  The name is believed to refer to Schumann's fictitious friend, Meta Abegg, whose surname Schumann used through a musical cryptogram as the motivic basis for the piece.  The name Meta is considered to be an anagram of the word "tema" ("Latin").  Another suggestion is Pauline von Abegg.  Apparently, when he was twenty years old, Schumann met her and dedicated this work to her, as witnessed in Clara Schumann's edition of her husband's piano works. Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic.  He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era.  Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.  He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream.  Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. Clara Schumann ("née" Clara Josephine Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.  She exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recital and the tastes of the listening public.  Her husband was the composer Robert Schumann.  Together they encouraged Johannes Brahms.  She was the first to perform publicly any work by Brahms.  She later premiered some other pieces by Brahms, notably the "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel". Luise Adolpha Le Beau (April 25, 1850 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – July 17, 1927 in Baden-Baden) was a German composer of classical music.  She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger.  Like many other 19th century female composers, Le Beau began her career in music as a pianist, and later earned her living teaching, critiquing, and performing music.
Answer: Johannes Brahms