And if we found Mozarts skull, what would we do with it? I mean other than something tacky like sell it on e-bay.
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Pretty odd - almost like the Mozart and Haydn rumors got mixed up.
I'd rather listen to his music.
When they dug up Mozart, they found his corpse slowly erasing the notes from a sheet of music. They asked him what he was doing, and he answered, "Decomposing."
It's not clear that he was buried in a mass grave, although that was implied in the movie Amadeus. The article says that he was buried in a pauper's cemetery. I saw a picture of the skull on the cover of an archaeology magazine about 15 years ago. Apparently it was dug up by the person in charge of the cemetery, who would have been is a position to remember its location.
The scientists said on Austrian television Sunday that the skeletons do not match the skull, and that the skeletons are also unrelated - creating a whole new mystery of who is buried the Mozart family crypt.
Is this where someone should interject ... 'tis a wise child, indeed, who knows his own father ... ?
He died nearly penniless and in debt, and at his death at age 35 an apathetic public took little notice of this man who had done so much in service to civilization. He was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave with few mourners. After his death, the bones of this great paragon of self-sacrifice for the sake of improving civilization were dug up and disposed of. His grave was then re-used, and to this day no one knows where his bones lie. Perhaps they are in a catacomb somewhere, in a huge bone-pile containing thousands of anonymous cadavers.
Now ducking for cover...
I'll bet a samll amount of money that Mozart's skull overlooks the bar at some fraternity house in Vienna.