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
An American Requiem including renowned tenor Robert Breault and baritone Simon Estes, and the Arlington Symphony conducted by the composer himself, delivered memorable concerts. Trey Graham, music critic of the "Washington Post", wrote a favorable review. One of the two that took place in New York was captured on television and subsequently broadcast over the next three years on more than 80 PBS stations across the United States. Norman Scribner, founder of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, sent a vibrant letter of support (February 20, 1996) and offered to present "An American Requiem" to the Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 1996, the