Ah How Sweet Coffee Tastes Lovelier

This is the aria "Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süsse" from Bach's Coffee Cantata, BWV 211, composed around 1732 in Leipzig. The cantata is a secular comic work — one of Bach's few surviving humorous pieces — satirising the contemporary German coffee craze. It features a father trying to break his daughter of her coffee habit, and the aria is her defiant declaration of devotion to the drink. The work was likely performed at Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig, where Bach directed the Collegium Musicum.