Just days after composer Joseph Haydn died in 1809, grave robbers broke into the cemetery and opened his coffin. Unlike other cemetery thieves, they weren’t interested in removing jewelry or other ...

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 ...

“No, because they stole his freakin’ skull and passed it around for phrenologist to fondle!” Ok, the old joke stops before the decapitation of one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Joseph ...

Stephen Moss by the Welcome to Eisenstadt (Haydnstadt) sign, Austria. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian Joseph Haydn's problem is that he didn't die young or go deaf. He survived until he was 77 and ...