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Anybody hear about this? I'm not sure how reliable it is, but I heard someone stole a wax head of Mozart from a measeum. I don't have a link, because I forget the site, and don't know how I got to it! It was recent though.
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I thought you were mistaking him for Haydn, whose head was stolen by a phrenologist and did not get returned to his body until about 50 years ago.
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I had not heard that about Mozart, but I had heard that about Haydn. Strange...
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Not the first time Mozart lost his head, or so I've heard. In my days it was popular to steal the head off the Little Mermaid on Langelinie in København, but I guess the criminal fraternity is getting more interested in the finer arts these days. Well, I guess we all try to better ourselves....!
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Better head this one off sooner rather than later, or we'll have heads of every composer rolling around the room!
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"Although he gained fame as a composer, Tchaikovsky never had what it takes to be a good conductor, even of his own music. He was always very nervous and had a morbid fear that his head might fall off in the middle of the piece. So he propped it up with his left hand and conducted with only his right. (This does no good. How could he turn the pages?)"
-- David Barber, Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, 115.
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"When Haydn died in 1809, there was a simple funeral, since Austria was rather busy being invaded by Napoleon's troops. A couple of amateur medical students secretly stole Haydn's skull and put it in a little black box with a white silk cushion. They wanted to read the bumps on his head.
In 1829, Prince Nicolaus Esterházy II had the body exhumed. When he found that it had no head, boy was he mad! He finally tracked down the thieves and demanded it back. They had donated Haydn's skull to a Viennese musical society and gave him some other skull instead. It wasn't until 1954 that Haydn's head was buried along with the rest of his body. Other than that, though, he was a pretty together guy."
-- David Barber, Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, 69
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I read about Mozart's head too. Some Vienna museum or something.
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