Salzburg buys a lock of Mozart’s hair
mainWith a piety worthy of the Vatican, the Salzburg Mozarteum has announced the acquisition of a certified lock of Mozart’s saintly hair, among a collection of Mozart family artefacts.
(So he didn’t go bald, then.)
The collection was bought from descendants of Carl Wilhelm Doell, an engraver of coins and medals in Karlsruhe.
I am sure there is some hair from Richard Wagner around as well, we could finish once for all the proplem ‘Isolde Beidler’.
Of course it is a problem….
The effort to solicit funds for this acquisition was hair raising.
Waiting for the BeethovenHaus in Bonn to excavate Ludwig’s balls next…. jeez
Reminds me of walking into the Cologne Cathedral – and other Catholic icons – and finding housed there so-called ‘relics’ of the crucifixion.
Mozart’s legacy is his music; all the rest is de-composition!
I can’t agree more-why not go and find out how he went to toilets?Useless of course!
So I guess the rest of him is still de-composing…
I didn’t know that Beethoven’s corpse was plucked bald thanks to this macabre habit.
https://litreactor.com/columns/lurid-my-man-ludwig-van-the-tortured-genius-of-beethoven
Interesting form of Voodoo.
Not that I can characterize or stereotype the entire inhabitants of a city, but it doesn’t really prove that would what’s already history repeat itself, that thanks to the “powers that be,” it would be any different much. It rather points to the opposite, explaining the quotation marks.
Hair today, gone tomorrow….