Musicologist’s Death – The Schumann Theory?

Did Boston University musicology professor John Daverio try to end his life in the same way as one of his great heroes, Robert Schumann? Daverio’s body surfaced in the Charles Monday night after he had been missing since March 16. Daverio wrote the 1997 biography ‘Robert Schumann: Herald of a New Poetic Age’, which of course mentions the brilliant, disturbed composer’s attempt to commit suicide at age 44 by throwing himself into the Rhine…”