A cup of coffee as favoured by Beethoven every morning (Photo: Getty Images) Beethoven was an ardent coffee drinker. For breakfast he usually drank coffee that he prepared using a glass coffee-maker.

Considered as ahead of his time in his music, Beethoven appears to have been modern in his taste in hot beverages too. He liked his coffee and he liked it strong, starting every day by counting ...

The streets must have seemed like they ... Still appreciated for its coffee houses, Vienna was where Haydn and Mozart socialised and where Beethoven took lessons with the eminent older composer.