The acceptance of the teaching position offered by the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main in 1878 marked a significant turning point in Clara Schumann’s artistic career. For the institution itself, it was no less a momentous decision: this step brought the Conservatory nationwide attention and a significant enhancement of its reputation. Both at the Conservatory and in her private teaching, Clara’s name stood for a tradition of piano playing that was widely acknowledged in the contemporary press as representing the ‘best traditions of an important era in pianoforte playing’ (Musical News 1891) or simply the ‘Schumann tradition’ (Davies 1925). Drawing on a corpus of sources including institutional records, letters, (auto)biographies, diaries, and other ‘ego-’documents, this chapter provides an overview of Clara’s teaching at the Hoch Conservatory, performance techniques, repertoire, modes of interpretation and reception, as well as institutional hierarchies of power.