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
Classical music include the "Dies irae" from the Verdi Requiem, Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from "Peer Gynt", the opening bars of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from "Die Walküre", Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee", and excerpts of Aaron Copland's "Rodeo". Several works from the Golden Age of Animation matched the action to classical music. Notable examples are Walt Disney's "Fantasia", Tom and Jerry's "Johann Mouse", and Warner Bros.' "Rabbit of Seville" and "What's Opera, Doc?" Similarly, movies and television often revert to standard, clichéd excerpts of classical music to convey refinement or opulence: