Music of Hungary words, and Mihály Mosonyi's German classical style, helped set the stage for future music, and their influence is "unsurpassed even by their successors, because in addition to their individual abilities they bring about an unprecedented artistic intensification of the Romantic musical idiom, which is practically consumed by this extreme passion". Elements of Hungarian folk music, especially verbunkos, became an important elements of many composers, both Hungarians like Kalman Simonffy and foreign composers like Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven. Hungary has also produced Karl Goldmark, composer of the "Rustic Wedding Symphony", composer and pianist Ernő Dohnányi, composer and ethnomusicologist László
Sharon Davis (composer) Greeley, Colorado. Sharon Davis (composer) Sharon Davis (born 1937) is a classical composer, pianist and music publisher. She is best known for her works "Suite of Wildflowers, op. 1"; "Three Moods of Emily Dickinson"; and "Three Poems of William Blake". Her "Though Men Call Us Free", written for soprano, clarinet and piano, draws upon words from Oscar Wilde's "The Young King". In the 1970s she performed with the Los Angeles Brass Quintet, and "Chamber Music Quarterly" described her as a "fine musician". Davis is the widow of composer William Schmidt and now manages his music publishing company, Western International Music