A music scholar was touring through a graveyard in Vienna when he heard music
coming out of a grave. On inspection, he found the headstone as Ludwig van
Beethoven, 1770-1827. The music was the Ninth Symphony being played backwards.
He soon rang up a friend who came in time to hear the Seventh Symphony
being played backwards. They hurried to call an expert who hurried to them
to hear the Fifth Symphony playing backwards. All the more weird was the
fact that symphonies were being played in the reverse order in which they
were composed. When the caretaker of the graveyard heard this, the only
comment he made was, "What's the wonder! He's just decomposing!"
