Beethoven Mystery...yes, another groaner

[Cody]

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears music.
No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin
and finds it is coming Reviewom a grave with a headstone that reads:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Born December 16, 1770 - Died March 26, 1827

Then he realizes that the music is the 9th Symphony and it is being played backward!
Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a Reviewiend to return with him. By the time
they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the 7th 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 5th 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 crowd has gathered around the grave.
They are all listening to the 2nd 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. "I would have thought it was obvious" the caretaker says.
"He's decomposing."