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Quotation by Benjamin Britten
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"A Working Life" Letters from a Life: Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten (1991)Related Subjects
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), British composer. Letter, June 29, 1937. "A Working Life," vol. 1, Letters from a Life: Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten (1991).
Britten wrote this while listening to the "Abschied"Mthe finale of Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde.
Britten wrote this while listening to the "Abschied"Mthe finale of Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde.
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