Some Obscurish facts
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Franz Josef Haydn may have been best known during his life for his 'Surprise Symphony,' but the biggest surprise for him came after his death. His head was stolen by a phrenologist searching for the 'faculty of music'. That man then gave it to a woman who displayed it in a glass case for eleven years at her musical soirees. It wasn't until 1954, almost 150 years after Haydn died, that his head and body were finally reunited.
Franz Josef Haydn may have been best known during his life for his 'Surprise Symphony,' but the biggest surprise for him came after his death. His head was stolen by a phrenologist searching for the 'faculty of music'. That man then gave it to a woman who displayed it in a glass case for eleven years at her musical soirees. It wasn't until 1954, almost 150 years after Haydn died, that his head and body were finally reunited.