After his burial in 1809, his friend Joseph Rosenbaum dug up his body, cut off the head, and sold it to a group of Viennese phrenologists.
After his burial in 1809, his friend Joseph Rosenbaum dug up his body, cut off the head, and sold it to a group of Viennese phrenologists. On his deathbed, Rosenbaum confessed the crime and left the skull to the Viennese Society of the Friends of Music, not realizing that his doctor had stolen the head and willed it to a pathological museum. After a long debate, Prince Paul Esterhazy finally persuaded everyone that the head belonged with the body of, for ten points, what composer of the Paris and London Symphonies?
After his burial in 1809, his friend Joseph Rosenbaum dug up his body, cut off the head, and sold it to a group of Viennese phrenologists.
Franz Josef {HAYDN}