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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
*Bach was an avid coffee-drinker, so much so that he wrote an ode to the drink in one of his secular cantatas (BMV 211), which was performed at Zimmerman's coffeehouse between 1732 and 1734.<ref>http://afactor.net/kitchen/coffee/kaffeeKantate.html</ref>
 
*Bach was an avid coffee-drinker, so much so that he wrote an ode to the drink in one of his secular cantatas (BMV 211), which was performed at Zimmerman's coffeehouse between 1732 and 1734.<ref>http://afactor.net/kitchen/coffee/kaffeeKantate.html</ref>
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*Since Bach's music was virtually unknown outside of a small circle of amateurs after his death, it was something of a miracle that composers Mozart and Beethoven learned of it.  
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*Since Bach's music was virtually unknown outside of a small circle of Leipzig-based connoiseurs after his death, it was something of a miracle that composers Mozart and Beethoven learned of it.  
 
**Beethoven's teacher as a boy, Christian-Gottlob Neefe, made sure that Beethoven played Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; the young genius had memorized all 48 by the age of 12!  
 
**Beethoven's teacher as a boy, Christian-Gottlob Neefe, made sure that Beethoven played Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; the young genius had memorized all 48 by the age of 12!  
 
**Mozart learned of Bach's music relatively late in life, in the 1780's, from Baron von Swieten, an ambassador and connoiseur who brought Bach's music with him to Vienna. Von Swieten would hold all-night music sessions where only Bach and Handel was played; a few decades later, Beethoven would also be invited to Von Swieten's palace.
 
**Mozart learned of Bach's music relatively late in life, in the 1780's, from Baron von Swieten, an ambassador and connoiseur who brought Bach's music with him to Vienna. Von Swieten would hold all-night music sessions where only Bach and Handel was played; a few decades later, Beethoven would also be invited to Von Swieten's palace.
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