I like how the backstory for the Brandenburg Concertos is mildly bananas. Bach started working as the music director for this prince who didn't use much music in the church (this is why many of Bach's early stuff was secular), and then after a couple years said prince got heavy into military debt so he cut the music budget. And THEN the prince got married, but she didn't give a shit about music either, so Bach was just like "oh für fich's sake" and dedicated a volume of six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt as proof of ability so he could get a job. They supposedly were never performed in the first place because the guy he dedicated it to didn't have all the instruments in his orchestra required. The collection's manuscript was then sold for literally twenty bucks, got shoved in a drawer (but no one actually bothered to put it in that day's additions log) and stayed there until a few decades after the composer was already fuckin' dead. ....Much like Kanon in D.