John Daverio unfortunate irony in the manner of Daverio's death, as Robert Schumann attempted suicide in 1854 by throwing himself into the Rhine river, and Daverio was among the world's leading Schumann scholars. His major works include "Nineteenth-Century Music and the German Romantic Ideology" (1993), "Robert Schumann: Herald of a New Poetic Age" (1997), and "Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms" (2002). John Daverio John Joseph Daverio (October 19, 1954 – March 16, 2003) was a violinist, scholar, teacher and author, best known for his writings on the music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Daverio was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, the
Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Stahnsdorf near Berlin. For a list of Humperdinck's pupils, see . In 1965, British singer Arnold Dorsey named himself after the composer. The main belt asteroid 9913 Humperdinck, discovered in 1977, was named after the composer. Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Engelbert Humperdinck (; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera "Hansel and Gretel". Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province in 1854. After receiving piano lessons, he produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two singspiele written when he