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[Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.

Source: Letter, 29 June 193; in Letters from a Life: Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, vol. 1, A Working Life, 1991.
-- Benjamin Britten, (Nov 22 1913-1976), English composer; He was the leading British composer of the mid-20th C.; his operas are considered the finest English operas since Henry Purcell in the 17th century.


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