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Albert Einstein took a nap every afternoon for exactly 20 minutes and slept around 10 hours each night.

John Lennon was right‑handed and played his guitar the usual way, but because he and Paul McCartney practiced so much together, they sometimes learned to play each other’s guitars flipped upside‑down too!

Ludwig van Beethoven's most important teacher was Christian Gottlob Neefe, who taught him composition and introduced him to the works of Bach and Mozart.

Impact & Legacy

Johann Sebastian Bach’s music was included on the Voyager Golden Record that NASA sent aboard the Voyager spacecraft into space — so his music is now traveling farther than he could ever have imagined, out into the stars!

Ludwig van Beethoven's music helped transition classical music from the Classical period to the Romantic period, influencing composers for generations to come.