Why Does Haydn's Tomb Contain Two Skulls?
Just day after composer Joseph Haydn died in 1809 , grave robbers broke into the cemetery and open his coffin . Unlike other cemetery thieves , they were n’t interested in removing jewellery or other valuables — they simply wanted Haydn ’s skull . So why are there two heads in his tomb now ? A couple of Haydn ’s pals , Joseph Carl Rosenbaum and Johann Nepomuk Peter , pay a gravedigger to give them memory access to their friend ’s top dog , lay claim that they wanted to " protect it from blasphemy ....