 The notes were intended to represent the importance of music for Germany - of composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, or Richard Wagner, of pioneers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, and of artists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter.The compositional work covers serious religious music and powerful symphonic pieces as well as a variety of cheerful elements.For example, in "Kaffeekantate" Bach depicted a humorous scene exploring the bourgeois life of the middle class in Leipzig of that time.