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Which Baroque composer wrote a satirical 1732 cantata poking fun at a coffee addiction?
Answer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach composed 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' (Coffee Cantata) around 1732 as a comic piece about the era's growing coffee craze.
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Bach composed a cantata mocking his mother's coffee addiction in 1732—'The Coffee Cantata.' It premiered in a Leipzig coffee house.
Other options people guess
- George Frideric Handel
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Georg Philipp Telemann
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- classical-music
- history
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