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
Swanee River (film) life, his wife was from Pittsburgh, as Foster was. The film's final scene is wholly inaccurate; there was no performance by E.P. Christy on the day Foster died. In reality, Christy died nearly two years before Foster; he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window at his home in New York City, in May 1862. Foster himself died in January 1864. Swanee River (film) Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who