Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music...

Peter Maxwell Davies, an English composer and conductor, wrote music in many genres, notably ten symphonies and works for the stage, from the monodrama...

ones such as the double bass (by composers like Eduard Tubin or Peter Maxwell Davies) and cor anglais (like those by MacMillan and Aaron Jay Kernis),...

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Revue (1980), a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. Bron has...

for Queen Elizabeth (1980), and Songs for a Royal Baby (1985). Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed to the Mastership in 2004 in succession to Williamson...

player Peter Davies (economic historian) (1927–2020), British economic historian Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016), British composer and conductor Peter Ronald...

(Ching) (Kunstkammer) by Jeffrey Ching, 2004–05 Symphony No. 5 (Davies) by Peter Maxwell Davies, 1994 Symphony No. 5 (Diamond) by David Diamond, 1947–64 Symphony...

small ensemble by Peter Maxwell Davies. Russell was reportedly intrigued by Davies' 1969 composition Eight Songs for a Mad King. Davies reportedly took...

music. Some prominent contemporary polystylist composers include Peter Maxwell Davies, Alfred Schnittke, and John Zorn. Polystylist composers from earlier...

band Happy Mondays and punk poet John Cooper Clarke. Composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004, was born...

this song for spiritual or thematic inspiration. British composer Peter Maxwell Davies: parody mass Missa super l'homme armé (1968, revised 1971). Welsh...

briefly with Meredith Monk and Pierre Boulez. His voice is that of Peter Maxwell Davies' Mad King on Nonesuch Records. He worked in a variety of musical...

Yellow Cake Revue is a musical composition for piano and voice. Peter Maxwell Davies composed the piece in 1980. He first performed it at the Stromness...

filmmaker Ken Russell, composers like Krzysztof Penderecki and Peter Maxwell Davies, as well as historian Jules Michelet and various scholars of European...

composer Peter Maxwell Davies. It is notable for being one of the few pieces in classical repertoire to feature a bagpipe solo. One of Davies's lighter...

publishing company Naxos Quartets, a series of string quartets by Peter Maxwell Davies Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera by Richard Strauss Naxos (mythology)...

least in the United Kingdom: Peter Maxwell Davies (10), Robin Holloway (1), David Matthews (9), James MacMillan (5), Peter Seabourne (6), and Philip Sawyers...

Aribert Reimann, Toru Takemitsu, Isang Yun, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Oliver Knussen, Hans Werner Henze and many...

and a staging of The Lighthouse, with music by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies. In 1983 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Sellars was the original...

a teacher. From 1983 Vir studied composition at Dartington with Peter Maxwell Davies and at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen. In...

Career - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies". maxopus.com. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Tominey, Camilla (4 June 2022). "Peter Phillips steps...

by Hans-Peter Horner), with Isabel Karajan, world premiere Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom Vienna 2009 8 Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies (Director:...

people Peter Davies (disambiguation), multiple people Peter Ho Davies, English author Peter Llewelyn Davies, see Llewelyn Davies Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)...

of Catholicism. Harper Collins. p. 1222. ISBN 978-0-06-065338-5. Peter Maxwell Davies: Composer's note in the published score (Boosey and Hawkes, B & H...

Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932– Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022, Accrington)...

in the Manchester School of post-war British composers, including Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, in his early twenties. He joined Olivier...

Havergal Brian, 1953–54 Symphony No. 10 (Davies) (Op. 327, Alla ricerca di Borromini) by Peter Maxwell Davies, 2013 Symphony No. 10 (Diamond) by David...

Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt's ballet Salome with music by Peter Maxwell Davies premiered in 1978. In "Salome" (1896) by the Greek poet Constantine...

present members includes David Arnold (fellow), Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies (fellow), George Fenton, Guy Garvey, Howard Goodall, Diedrich Hartmann...