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
Sources of the Rhine used as part of the name of many rivers, in many different spellings, such as "Rhine", "Rein", "Rain", "Ragn", "Ren", "Reno" and "Rin". If one were to use largest discharge as one's criterion for deciding which flow should be called "Rhine", one need not look at eastern Switzerland at all, since the Aare has a larger discharge then the Rhine at the confluence. However, in the rest of this article, the Aare will be ignored. The source of the main flow path can be obtained by following the river upstream and determining at each junction which the larger river. At