Joseph Haydn - a famous austrian composer & Mozart´s very close friend.
Some freaks wanted to find out his genius and chopped his head in the graveyard after he was buried. Was it just a hoax or true ?
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2006-12-26 10:32:15 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
According to this source, his body was exhumed in 1820 for internment @ Eisenstadt. The coffin was opened for identification and his head was missing. A scull was annonymously sent to Prince Esterhazy, but the real head was retained and subsequently bequeathed to the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna. In 1932 the reigning Prince tried to obtain it for burial with Haydn’s body in the mausoleum he had erected in the Bergkirche at Eisenstadt, but he was not successful, and the skull still remained with the Friends of Music until 1954, when it was entombed at Eisenstadt on 6th June.
2006-12-26 10:48:20 · answer #1 · answered by psn1der 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it was chopped off before he died?
2006-12-26 10:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋