Famous Coffee Lovers

If there's one thing people around the world have in common is that drinking coffee. Many people get a kick out of eating this popular beverage. Ordinary people and celebrities are all busy at their morning coffee every day to determine where they are. To show you how popular coffee, here's a short list of famous coffee lovers who love them as much as we drink.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer, organist and violinist whose works include the Brandenburg concertos, the Goldberg Variations, it's Partitas, and Well-Tempered Clavier. But did you know that he loved coffee so much that he wrote a comic opera about this?

Quiet Schweigt plaudit night ("Be quiet, stop talking") or The Coffee Cantata was written between 1732 and 1734 and tells about the dependence of the Society of coffee, which was common in the 18th century Leipzig, the largest city in Germany. Cantata's libretto contains lines like "If I can not drink my bowl of coffee three times a day, then in my torment I will fade like a piece of roast goat." This feeling was apparently shared by patrons of Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig, where Bach was needed to perform tasks.

French writer and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was a coffee drink, lover, who gave him restless energy. He devoted several pages to the coffee in an article, descried the stimulation of his time. Is this popular beverage inspired him to create his magnum opus La COM die humane? We do not know for sure, but it is a fact that coffee contains an awake person who can definitely help if you have a masterpiece.