Did you know? Johann Sebastian Bach wrote comic material.
Here is his Coffee Cantata.
In Richard Marchall's biography as presented on page 123 of 10 Christians Everyone Should Know, we read: Similar to these family "sing-offs" the "Coffee Cantata" provides a glimpse of Bach with his hair down. The fact that it was likely first performed at Zimmermann's Coffee Shop, and that the beverage was sweeping Europe like today's Starbucks mania, obscures the fact that Bach composed it as an inside joke for his family. It was a humorous commentary on courtship more than coffee.
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