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
Ozymandias (pianist) Ozymandias (pianist) Ozymandias is the name of a musical project by neo-classical Swiss pianist, Christophe Terrettaz. Ozymandias is the pseudonym of the pianist and composer Christophe Terrettaz. After several years studying classical piano, Christophe Terrettaz starts to compose. His first work, "Isolement", is produced in 1996 by the German label "Weisser Herbst". His second album, "Ahara", is released in 1998 by the cult label World Serpent Distribution. In 1999, Mark Ellis of "Elijah's Mantle" and Christophe Terrettaz collaborates on "The Soul Of Romanticism'" a spoken-word album based on poems of Shelley, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. This work exposes the