Date of move for Beethoven s and Schubert s final resting place Dear MagicPiano In the 1863 edition of the British publication The Musical Standard the following paragraph is found on page 108 of the November issue It appears that this sets the move date of the bodies earlier than the 1888 year given in the article Or perhaps there were two moves It doesn t seem likely I have copied the paragraph digitized by The Google Book project and OCR d the image and then checked it for errors MUSICAL SACRILEGE The following paragraph has been going the round of the daily papers appearing in the Globe under the head of Court Intelligence The Musical Society of Vienna having resolved that the mortal remains of Beethoven and of Schu bert should be placed in more suitable vaults the two bodies were exhumed on the 13th in the presence of a crowd of medical and artistic notabilities The skeleton of Beethoven was almost perfect the bone of the temples alone being wanting The remains of Schubert had suffered much the head and hair were intact The bodies of the celebrated composers were photographed upon being reburied There is something essentially repulsive in the idea of disturbing the remains of Beethoven in the presence of a crowd of artistic nobodies a proceeding not at all divested of culpably impertinent curiosity by the plea of reverence to the memory of the departed great ED 169 139 222 5 Robert Winslow