Britten (other)
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Britten or Benjamin Britten may also refer to: *Britten (surname) *4079 Britten, an outer main-belt asteroid *Britten Inlet, an ice-filled inlet on Monteverdi Peninsula, Antarctica *Britten_(Losheim_am_See), a village in the Losheim am See municipality *Britten Motorcycle Company, a New Zealand motorcycle company founded by John Britten * Benjamin Britten (train) *The Benjamin Britten High School, a high school in Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK See also *Britain (other) *Briton (other) * Brittain (other) * Brittan, a surname *Britten-Norman, a British aircraft manufacturer *Britton (surname) *Brython The Britons ( *''Pritanī'', la, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were people of Celtic language and culture who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age and into the Middle Ages, at which point the ...

Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '' Peter Grimes'' (1945), the '' War Requiem'' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece ''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'' (1945). Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the '' a cappella'' choral work '' A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-sca ...
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Britten (surname)
Britten is a surname, originally referring to a person from Brittany. Notable people with the surname include: * Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), British composer, conductor, and pianist * Bill Britten (1828–1920), American actor best known for his portrayal of Bozo the Clown * Emma Hardinge Britten (1823–1899), spiritualist * Frederick A. Britten (1871–1946), U.S. Representative from Illinois * Harry Britten (1870–1954), English entomologist * James Britten (1846–1924), English botanist * John Britten (1950–1995), New Zealand motorcycle designer * Linda Britten, Australian fashion designer * Mark Britten, American comedian with stage name "The Chinaman" * Paul Britten Austin (1922–2005), English author, broadcaster and translator * Rhonda Britten (born 1960), founder of the Fearless Living Institute * Roy John Britten (1919–2012), American molecular biologist * Sébastien Britten (born 1970), Canadian figure skater * Terry Britten Terence Ernest Britten (b ...
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4079 Britten
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other ...
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Britten Inlet
Britten Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet and the only inlet on Monteverdi Peninsula indenting the southwest side of the Peninsula, south Alexander Island, Antarctica. The inlet was delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery of January 1973. In association with the names of composers grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, 1977, after Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ..., the British composer. See also * Weber Inlet * Haydn Inlet * Verdi Inlet References

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