Thursday, July 18, 2024

Question: What composer wrote the Coffee Cantata, about a young woman who ignores her father’s many attempts to get her to stop drinking coffee?

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was also apparently a coffee enthusiast. So much so that he wrote a composition about the beverage. Coffee Cantata is about a young vivacious woman named Aria who loves coffee. Her killjoy father is, of course, dead set against his daughter having any kind of caffeinated fun. So he tries to ban her from drinking coffee.