John Joseph Daverio (October 19, 1954 – March 16, 2003) was a violinist, scholar, teacher and author, best known for his writings on the music of

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

and

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...

. His research interests centered around Austro-German composers including J. S. Bach,

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

and Post-Romantic composers such as R. Strauss and

Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

. Just before his sudden death, he was exploring the concept of "late Style" in the music of

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

, Mozart, and

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

. All of his writings feature the relation of music to literature and philosophy. Daverio was born in

Sharon, Pennsylvania Sharon is a city in western Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city, located along the banks of the Shenango River on the state border with Ohio, is about northeast of Youngstown, about southeast of Cleveland and about northwe ...

, the only son of Italian-American parents. He was a professor of music at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

and chairman of the CFA school of music musicology department and of the CAS and GRS department of music and ad interim director of the school of music; Daverio received the University's Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. Daverio died under mysterious circumstances, drowning in the

Charles River The Charles River (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Hopkinton to Boston along a highly me ...

at the age of 48. It remains unclear whether his death was accident or suicide, though foul play has been ruled out. Some have noted an unfortunate irony in the manner of Daverio's death, as Robert Schumann attempted suicide in 1854 by throwing himself into the

Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...

river, and Daverio was among the world's leading Schumann scholars.

Selected works

*''Crossing paths : Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms.'' Oxford University Press, 2002. *''Robert Schumann : Herald of a 'New Poetic Age. Oxford University Press, 1997. *''Nineteenth-Century Music and the German Romantic Ideology.'' Schirmer Books, 1993. *"The Song Cycle : Journeys through a Romantic Landscape." in ''German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century.'' ed. by Rufus Hallmark. Routledge, 2010. *"Songs of dawn and dusk : coming to terms with the late music." in ''The Cambridge Companion to Schumann.'' ed. by Beate Perrey. Cambridge University Press, 2007. *"Piano works I : a world of Images." in ''The Cambridge Companion to Schumann.'' ed. by Beate Perrey. Cambridge University Press, 2007. *"Point-counter-point: Schoenberg meets Bach," in ''Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux: Symbols, Parallels and Discoveries in Her Honor (Festschrift Series.)'' ed. by Paul-André Bempéchat. Pendragon Press, 2005. *"Mozart in the Nineteenth Century," ''The Cambridge Companion to Mozart.'' ed. by Simon P. Keefe. Cambridge University Press, 2003. *"Beautiful and abstruse conversations" : the Chamber Music of Schumann.” in ''Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music.'' ed. by Stephen Hefling. Taylor & Francis, 2003. *"Fin de siecle Chamber Music and the Critique of Modernism." in ''Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music.'' ed. by Stephen Hefling. Taylor & Francis, 2003. *"Robert Schumann," ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and t ...

.'' ed. by

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was published as the first edition ...

(2nd ed.), 2004. *"Manner, Tone, and Tendency in Beethoven’s Chamber Music for Strings." in ''The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven.'' ed. by Glenn Stanley. pp. 147–164. Cambridge University Press, 2000. *"E. T. A. Hoffmann's Allegory of Romantic Opera", in ''The Varieties of Musicology: Essays in Honor of Murray Lefkowitz'', ed. by John Daverio and John K. Ogasapian. Harmonie Park Press, 2000. *"One More Beautiful Memory of Schubert: Schumann's Critique of the Impromptus, D. 935." ''

The Musical Quarterly ''The Musical Quarterly'' is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928. Sonneck was succeeded by a number of editors, including C ...

'', Winter 2000, Vol. 84 no. 4, p. 604. *"The Legacy of Greek Antiquity as a Stimulus for the Musical Avant-Garde" in ''International Meeting on Music : Music and Ancient Greece. Symposium Proceedings.'' Athens : Livanis and European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 1999. *"Schumann's Ossianic manner." ''

19th-Century Music ''19th-Century Music'' is a triennial academic journal that "covers all aspects of Western art music composed in, leading to, or pointing beyond the "long century" extending roughly from the 1780s to the 1930s." It is published by the University of ...

'', Spring 1998, Vol. 21 no. 3, pp. 247–273. *"Madness or Prophecy? : Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe, op. 133." pp. 187–204. in ''Nineteenth-Century Piano Music : Essays in Performance and Analysis.'' ed. by David Witten. New York : Garland Publishing, 1997. *"The Song Cycle : Journeys through a Romantic Landscape," in Rufus Hallmark, ed., ''German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century.'' New York : Schirmer Books, 1996; pp. 279–312. *"Schumann's 'New Genre for the Concert Hall', ''Das Paradies und die Peri,'' in the Eyes of a Contemporary," in R. Larry Todd, ed. ''Schumann and His World.'' Princeton, 1994; pp. 129–56. *"From 'Concertante Rondo' to 'Lyric Sonata' : A Commentary on Brahms's Reception of Mozart," ''Brahms Studies''. ed. by David Brodbeck. University of Nebraska, 1994. *"The 'Wechsel der Tone' in Brahms's 'Schicksalslied.'" ''Journal of the American Musicological Society'', Spring 1993, Vol. 46 no. 1, pp. 84–113. *"Brünnhilde's immolation scene and Wagner's 'conquest of the reprise'" ''Journal of Musicological Research'', January 1991, Vol. 11 no. 1-2, pp. 33–66. *"Reading Schumann by Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries." ''College Music Symposium'', Fall, 1990, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 28–45. *"Brahms's 'Magelone Romanzen' and the 'Romantic imperative.'" ''The Journal of Musicology'', Summer 1989, Vol. 7 no. 3, pp. 343–365. *"Symmetry and chaos: Friedrich Schlegel's views on music." ''Nineteenth-Century Contexts'', March 1987, Vol. 11 no. 1, pp. 51–62. *"In Search of the Sonata da Camera before Corelli." ''Acta Musicologica'', July 1985, Vol. 57 no. 2, pp. 195–214. *"Schumann's 'Im Legendenton' and Friedrich Schlegel's 'Arabeske'" ''

'', October 1987, Vol. 11 no. 2, pp. 150–163. *"'Total Work of Art' or 'Nameless Deeds of Music' : Some Thoughts on German Romantic Opera." '' The Opera Quarterly'', Winter 1986, Vol. 4 no. 4, p. 61. *"Formal Design and Terminology in the Pre-Corellian 'Sonata' and related Instrumental Forms in the Printed Sources." Ph. D. dissertation, Boston University, 1983.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daverio, John 1954 births 2003 deaths Deaths by drowning in Massachusetts 20th-century American musicologists Schumann scholars