Mystery of Mozart Skull Unsolved
Kate Connolly
Telegraph.co.uk
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Berlin (Germany):
A sense of gloom was cast over the celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth yesterday, after scientists failed to conclude whether a skull was that of the composer.
Scientists in Austria had spent 18 months carrying out extensive tests on the skull which had lain in an air-tight casket in the Mozarteum academy in Salzburg for more than a century.
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Key to the evidence they needed were DNA samples taken from the bones of Mozart's niece, Jeanette, and his maternal grandmother, Eva Rosine Pertl, which were exhumed from a grave in Salzburg's St Sebastian cemetery.
The samples were to have been compared with DNA from Mozart's teeth.Officials in Salzburg were bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries. But a long-awaited television documentary aired last night by the Austrian broadcaster ORF laid all such hopes to rest."The mystery continues," said the documentary's author, Burgl Czeitschner. "Some might say it was much ado about nothing, but a result is a result and the suspense building up to it was very exciting."
Jan 09, 2006
Kate Connolly
Telegraph.co.uk
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Berlin (Germany):
A sense of gloom was cast over the celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth yesterday, after scientists failed to conclude whether a skull was that of the composer.
Scientists in Austria had spent 18 months carrying out extensive tests on the skull which had lain in an air-tight casket in the Mozarteum academy in Salzburg for more than a century.
________________
See Also:
Mozart mystery still lacking a coda
Experts fail to bring mystery of Mozart's skull to a head
________________
Key to the evidence they needed were DNA samples taken from the bones of Mozart's niece, Jeanette, and his maternal grandmother, Eva Rosine Pertl, which were exhumed from a grave in Salzburg's St Sebastian cemetery.
The samples were to have been compared with DNA from Mozart's teeth.Officials in Salzburg were bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries. But a long-awaited television documentary aired last night by the Austrian broadcaster ORF laid all such hopes to rest."The mystery continues," said the documentary's author, Burgl Czeitschner. "Some might say it was much ado about nothing, but a result is a result and the suspense building up to it was very exciting."
Jan 09, 2006
