New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-11
THE SKULL or MOZART.
PROFESSOR HYRTL,s ROMANTIC STORY.
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PROFESSOR IIYRTL'S ROMANTIC STORY.
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Professor Iyrt the famous anatomlSt. VINO rev
Gays ago celebrated his cghtlcth birthday anouncei
on mat occasion, m conversation WIN 1gTgra ~ M1
that he had bcqucathed i'm his VIII the skull ol mozart
which has been IN hi, possession Tor several years 10
the MOzartcum" al Salzburg It has been known lor
long time in Jenna that Professor lIyrtl had received
from his brother. the late enSraycr. skull when wa,
believed 10 be that Of the great composer lut Is u
examined II have doubted H. OWING 10 inc
absence of all peclpantieS which, according
10 the present theorie should mark the exist
cncc OF musical genius But these saIahla
wcrc equally a>;oni,hcd when the remain, OF Ngct-
h0vcl cXhumcd observe that the skull al mat
great master dd not answer the expectations OF U;
rhnological theorists; 1t was. TN ACT rather 'i,
skul aud might have been supposed 10 belong 10 man
81 restricted intellect rather than to genius Ike c
great master.
similar results were arrived at in measuring the
skulls Of Haydn and schubert and in this way those
Wlo were 'ccpucal as to the gehHnchesS 9 rroeno
stated that Mozart'S widow. who long survived llu
terry where her husband was Inferred how therefore
could any one else, at later period, know the To-
was severed from The resi- Of the skeleton There
waS, for time. q doubt whether Mozart was IN
TERED I'm 81 Marx south of Vienna or elsewhere but
an entry in the registry of the parish of stephen
170i SAYS: Died the previoil, day the Honorable
Herr W0ganG Amadcu, Mozart imperial and Royal
Conductor and Court Composer IN the nous 'a saed
cemetery Of II. Marx: thrdcla>, burial. for which
three HORNS" In the university library there was
found article in the Natcrlandlochc BLnttcr. ,
written in I.o-. in which contemporary OF Mozart
wrote: Iii, widow was immediately after ne
brcathcd his last taken seriously ILL.,. ana coud not
attend the funeral or o'chlN h'r-cH WIN lnc ar
rangcment, for it. Baron Gotfricd van NWctcn, son
OF Inc celebrated Gerhard van SWlccn. undertook me
management. and. a, he "aht'd ~ c'olonHI ~
the intcre-, OF the widow, who wa quite dcstl-
tutc be- arranged for the ntcrment in a common
grave and not even the luxury of stone or t2o.st
showing which common grave it Wa did he give MN,
- that the widow rcpUachcd him aftcrwam win not
knowing where - 80 t. pray for her husband. me
cravcdigccr pretend, 10 know by the date OF the
burial that the common gray" Wnlch ch'n''> 'ioH'I'
remain, must be- either in the third or in the ionrlm
row counted from The cross. and a. these common
turned over periodically. the next dltI.iG
mp taking place eight wear, hence 0-lGl. 1t would
De- very fortunate II 10y som" special sign at cdoi
the skull Of the composer could be discovered ana
preserved. This sravcdescr Of i. Mar\ , ,aid IN
grave wa, situated ON the left side from the en-.
trance in the sixth row from the and that II
va. the eighth in inc common Shaft determination
Prnfo.,nr IIyrtl has some additional reasons for
Iolo,-r that he really p,,-c.c, the skull of Mozait
and hi- account romantic II would seem, i Az
pIrerfIy ,nuyin,ing according 10 thu. a mas VIZ
bru crcb,tcd In one Of the churches Of the suburb
Ilud-tri--". when gard 'ucr'- son, upon "H9n
murc nicrc-cl i'm It on brhs tod mat vas c y,
rilicner' son Wa ,ftcrward appointed crtvcd ,ecr at
class hrlr.r halted before the ourchyar door Wllh a
Susie collin. destined for ''W,lI'n Fal i" ,,r'
,'h,. INNS, me- had heard N his youth and thought
- the po,-ibltc of the dead man being thr ~an''
Tie common gray" then u L-' "l, h'IN IiI' .',N
placed in it ~ the uppcrmo-t and th" eriv@liI;cr
noted that 'r'um-ian," ID . 'a'uilIi W,n w. W, ~,
IN rr grave Identical with the comp9-'r. Zen
YEAR p,--"d. and tm- grave ", irdug. RE dllS''
pli,. fro Which he had put hi, coffin. took the uppcr-
most skull wrapped ir BOB linen. and kept D. n cup
board al MI home. showing il only 10 his most Intimate