Music From the Grave
A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard
and all of a
he hears some music. No one is around, so he
starts searching for
the source. He finally locates the origin and finds
it is coming from a grave
with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven,
1770-1827. Then he
realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and
it is being
playedbackward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard
and persuades a friend
to return with him. By the time they arrive back
at the grave, the
music has changed.
This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the
previous piece,
it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree
to consult a music
scholar. When they return with the expert,
the Fifth Symphony is playing,
again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies
are being played
in the reverse order in which they were composed,
the 9th, then the
7th,then the 5th. By the next day the word has spread
and a throng has
gathered around the grave. They are all listening
to the Second
Symphony being played backward. Just then the
graveyard's caretaker
ambles up to the group. Someone in the group
asks him if he has an
explanation for the music.
"Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously.
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He's "decomposing".
Courtesy Anonymous