If you love classical music and you love coffee like I do, here's a story to appeal to both.
Bach Wrote an Opera About Coffee
July 2022 / InterestingFacts.com
Johann Bach is remembered as one of the world’s greatest composers, known for orchestral compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos. But one of Bach’s lesser-known works is Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (“Be Still, Stop Chattering”) — a humorous ode to coffee popularly known as the Coffee Cantata.
Written sometime in the 1730s, Bach’s opera makes light of fears at the time that coffee was an immoral beverage entirely unfit for consumption. In the 18th century, coffee shops in Europe were known to be boisterous places of conversation, unchaperoned meeting places for young romantics, and the birthplaces of political plots.
A reported lover of coffee, Bach wrote a 10-movement piece that pokes fun at the uproar over coffee. The opera tells the story of a father attempting to persuade his daughter to give up her coffee addiction so that she might get married, but in the end, she just becomes a coffee-imbibing bride.
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Bach - Coffee Cantata ''Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht'' BWV 211 - Final Chorus
Performers: Madeleine Vogt, soprano;Matthias Schubotz, tenor; Holger Krause, bass: Members of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
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