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
Gordon Watson (pianist) and 1985. The Australian pedagogue and composer Alex Burnard (1900–1971), a student of Ralph Vaughan Williams, wrote a set of "Twelve Folk-Songs Settings" for Watson. Gordon Watson died in Sydney on 16 April 1999. An obituary appeared in "The Sydney Morning Herald" on 27 April. Gordon Watson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours of 1987, for his services to music as a performer and teacher. Gordon Watson recorded: Gordon Watson (pianist) Gordon Charles Watson AM (28 February 192116 April 1999) was an Australian classical pianist and teacher. He taught at the