But Haller in his last will expresset the desire that the skull should go to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, and for several decades the society had it stored in its museum.
Four years ago Prince Eszterhazy ordered the construction of a magnificent mausoleum for Haydn in the parish church of Eistenstadt, and two years ago I was able to see the magnificent crypt with the four mighty monuments in each cartier of the sarcophagus, The mausoleum, however, remained empty, and Haydn's body rested in a narrow burial place twenty yards further on in the vaults of the church. The Prince refused to bury the body in the new mausoleum without the skull, Now at last the quarrel between him and the Society: is at an end, ahd in the spring the transfer of Haydn's remains will take place amid splendid ceremonies,
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