Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable. And if history is an open book, all of these

amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of them. We keep meaning to clean that garage or donate those clothes, but we never seem to get the chance to do it.

As it turns out, this is a universal experience. Even princes put things off that they don't want to do.

In 1820, Prince Nicholas Estherhasey

finally made up his mind to finish something sitting on his to-do list. You see, ten years

earlier, when his court composer Joseph Haydn died, he swore that he would move

the man from his modest grave in Vienna to a beautiful tomb at the Estherhazy estates.

But when the body was exhumed, the prince was in for a shock.

It seemed that his friend had lost his head.

Quite literally.

Joseph Heiden's body was in the coffin with a powdered wig atop it.

The skull, however, was missing.

Now, if you're a classical music fan, you've probably heard of Joseph Heiden.

He was born in 1732 to a poor family in Austria.

Although neither of his parents had been musically trained, music was a huge part of his

home life. His father taught himself to play the harp and his mother liked to sing with their neighbors.

When Joseph showed interest in music at an early age, his parents knew that he'd have no chance to learn if he stayed with them in the village.

So at the young age of just five years old, Joseph went to live with his cousin, the choir master of a larger town.

As Joseph grew up, he dedicated his life to music, first as a singer in several choirs,

then as a music teacher and a companyist, and finally as a composer.

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