stackyFACTSBefore Spotify, absolute musical fanaticism required a punishing amount of cardio. A young Johann Sebastian Bach literally hiked across Germany for two hundred miles on foot just to listen to Dieterich Buxtehude play the organ, apparently deciding that public transit was for the weak.
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Working incredibly closely to loudly blasting brass horns takes a massive toll on delicate human eardrums. Surrounded entirely by aggressively booming…
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History almost lost the greatest Baroque masterpieces to a meat shop. Decades after Bach died in obscurity, Mendelssohn stumbled upon his glorious…
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Taking aesthetic pretension to a dangerous physiological extreme, the eccentric French composer restricted his diet exclusively to white items. He survived…
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Nothing screams intellectual brilliance quite like being paralyzed by a completely arbitrary number. Mahler was so terrified of the 'curse of the ninth'—a…
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Because standard cures for writer's block were apparently for peasants, the legendary composer literally dumped buckets of freezing water on his brain to…
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Before massive rock solos required six complex strings, the earliest strumming devices kept things incredibly simple. It was basically a glorified ukulele,…
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