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Mozart preferred his coffee black: About two months before he died, Mozart wrote to his wife about playing billiards after which he ordered black coffee and smoked a " wonderful pipe of tobacco ". Coffee even makes an appearance in Don Giovanni . Rossini noticed that coffee's effects wore off after constant use: A lover of many foods, he was quoted as saying, " Coffee is a matter of fifteen or twe...
Musicians and Coffee: A miscellany
Aug 06, 2021
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Over time, a special coffee house culture developed in Habsburg Vienna. On the one hand, writers, artists, musicians, intellectuals, bon vivants and their financiers met in the coffee house, and on the other hand, new coffee varieties were always served. In the coffee house, people played cards or chess, worked, read, thought, composed, discussed, argued, observed and just chatted. A lot of inform...
A Sort of Democratic Club - Coffee Houses in Vienna
May 16, 2021
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December 1792: Right after arriving in Vienna, Beethoven prepared a shopping list. Items and costs on the list are “wig-maker, coffee, overcoat, boots, shoes, pianoforte-desk, seal, writing-desk, pianoforte-money.” In Beethoven’s time Vienna still had a rigid class-based society each having its own brothels, restaurants and coffee houses (cafés), but Beethoven, as a commoner and darling of ...
Beethoven and Coffee
Apr 03, 2021
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