Haydn's skull
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haydn-s-skull-169-421332
title:
Haydn's skull
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The celebrated composer Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, aged 77, on May 31, 1809, after a long illness. As Austria was at war and Vienna occupied by Napoleon's troops, a rather simple funeral was held in Gumpendorf, the parish in Vienna to which Haydn's house on the Windmühle belonged, followed by burial in the Hundsturm cemetery. Following the burial, two men conspired to bribe the gravedigger and thereby sever and steal the dead composer's head. These were Joseph Carl Rosenbaum, a former secretar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn%27s_skull
date created:
2007-09-06T23:24:44Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T19:13:30Z
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