4079 Britten (1983 CS) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1983 by Edward L. G. Bowell at Flagstaff. It is named after the British composer Benjamin Britten.
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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)