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
Biber (Rhine) Biber (Rhine) The Biber is a small river on the border between Germany and Switzerland. The source is located at Watterdingen in the municipality Tengen, district of Constance in Baden-Wuerttemberg. After about the Biber river flows into the Rhine at the Bibermühle (Biber Mill) west of Hemishofen in the Canton of Schaffhausen. The Biber is the largest tributary of the High Rhine on the stretch between Stein am Rhein and Schaffhausen. On its way to the Rhine, the Biber crosses the Swiss-German border three times. The source of the Biber is near Watterdingen in the municipality Tengen, in the Hegau,