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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.  

*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 (who came from Leipzig), 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 (who came from Leipzig), 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 (after he also had learned of it in Leipzig). 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 Gottfried van Swieten, an ambassador and connoiseur who brought Bach's music with him to Vienna (after he also had learned of it in Berlin). Swieten would hold all-night music sessions where only Bach and Handel was played; a few decades later, Beethoven would also be invited to Swieten's palace.

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