When great, prolific Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in 1809, he was buried in a simple grave in one of Vienna's suburban cemeteries. Two days after the burial, enthusiastic medical students bribed the gravedigger, opened the grave and made off with Composer Haydn's head. The theft was discovered eleven years later when Haydn's remains were disinterred and buried more imposingly in the neighboring town of Eisenstadt. Pressed by the police, the skull-collectors delivered up a skull which was promptly attached to the rest of Haydn's skeleton and reburied. But the skull...
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