"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

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Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist, widely regarded as one of the leading British composers of the twentieth century. His major works include Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw, and War Requiem.

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