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These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and 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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It is better to be a bad composer writing for society than to be a bad composer writing against it. At least your work can be of some use.
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For that, as I see it, is our job—to be useful, and to the living.
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I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
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Benjamin Britten
Born:
November 22, 1913
Died:
December 4, 1976
(aged 63)
Bio:
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces.
Known for:
Moonrise Kingdom
The Angelic Conversation
Night Mail (1936)
Bad Blood
Beau Travail
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