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Very disappointed that the article doesn't mention that about 1734 Johann Sebastian Bach actually wrote a secular cantata (often called the "Coffee Cantata") te
by thirteenfingers 6y ago
Very disappointed that the article doesn't mention that about 1734 Johann Sebastian Bach actually wrote a secular cantata (often called the "Coffee Cantata") telling the story of a father trying to get his daughter to stop drinking coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille,_plaudert_nicht,_BWV_211 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille,_plaudert_nich...
https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-211/ https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-211/
- acheron 6y agoIf I don’t get my coffee I shall shrivel up like a piece of roast goat.
- mcswell 6y agoI came here to post about that, and you beat me to it. I was provoked by the article's title, "coffee...a modern necessity." Unless of course you consider Bach modern!
- inawarminister 6y agoWell, historians broadly agree th 1700s were firmly in the Early Modern period.