The 20 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies Ever

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81. Well, they weren't quite as poor as was portrayed

and he wasn't dumped into a pauper's grave. His grave was unmarked because of regulations that bodies be buried without embalming and without markers within the city in the crowded urban cemeteries. He shared his unmarked accommodations with at least one Baron and one Count. His grave has never been found for certain, but a plaque has been placed where it is likely to be, as that part of the cemetery was active at the time of his death.

Had he been a pauper, he'd most likely have been buried outside the city walls, where it was considerably cheaper.

Speculation now is that he had Asperger's, something that would explain both his extraordinary musical talent and his inability to spot emotional cues and conform to court protocol.

He actually lived rather well in a time when if you wanted to listen to music, you had to buy sheet music and play it, yourself on whatever instrument you had mastered.