Background
Daverio was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, the only son of Italian-American parents.
Daverio was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, the only son of Italian-American parents.
Daverio died under mysterious circumstances, drowning in the Charles River at the age of 48. lieutenant 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 river, and Daverio was among the world"s leading Schumann scholars.
His major works include Nineteenth-Century Music and the German Romantic Ideology (1993), Robert Schumann: Herald of a New Poetic Age (1997), and Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms (2002).