Post by ChrisB on Jul 3, 2015 7:46:04 GMT
A tourist was walking through a cemetery in Vienna and all of a sudden he heard some strange sounding music and he started looking around to find out where it was coming from.
After wandering around between the graves he found it was coming from the ground beside a headstone that read: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827". Sitting down on a nearby bench, he listened for a while and then realized that the music was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony playing backwards.
Puzzled, he left the graveyard and persuaded his wife to return with him even though she thought he must be mad after he told her the story. As they were walking towards the grave, he realised the music had changed. He listened for a while and realised that this time it was the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it was being played backwards.
Curious, they thought it would be best to consult a music scholar. When they returned with an expert, the Fifth Symphony was playing and again, backwards. The expert wondered why the symphonies were being played in the reverse order to which they were written, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.
By the next day the word had spread, and a crowd gathered around the grave.
They were all listening to the Second Symphony being played backwards, just then the graveyard caretaker ambled up to the group and asked if they had a special interest in Beethoven.
Someone shouted that they were there to hear the music coming from the grave and asked him if he had heard it before.
He answered that it had been happening for as long as he could remember.
Someone else asked if he knew what was causing it.
The caretaker replied: "I would have thought that was obvious....he's decomposing."
True story!
After wandering around between the graves he found it was coming from the ground beside a headstone that read: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770- 1827". Sitting down on a nearby bench, he listened for a while and then realized that the music was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony playing backwards.
Puzzled, he left the graveyard and persuaded his wife to return with him even though she thought he must be mad after he told her the story. As they were walking towards the grave, he realised the music had changed. He listened for a while and realised that this time it was the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it was being played backwards.
Curious, they thought it would be best to consult a music scholar. When they returned with an expert, the Fifth Symphony was playing and again, backwards. The expert wondered why the symphonies were being played in the reverse order to which they were written, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.
By the next day the word had spread, and a crowd gathered around the grave.
They were all listening to the Second Symphony being played backwards, just then the graveyard caretaker ambled up to the group and asked if they had a special interest in Beethoven.
Someone shouted that they were there to hear the music coming from the grave and asked him if he had heard it before.
He answered that it had been happening for as long as he could remember.
Someone else asked if he knew what was causing it.
The caretaker replied: "I would have thought that was obvious....he's decomposing."
True story!
