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...

Academy of Music in Aarhus. As a composer, he claims the influence of Peter Maxwell Davies and other postmodernists. From 1992 to 2001, he served as the principal...

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),...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Service presented a documentary film tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies for BBC 4 called Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Master and Maverick, described by David Chater...

Classical acts to have an album nominated have included John Tavener, Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars and Nicholas Maw. None has ever won, and there has...

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

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

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

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...

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...

owns a tavern Taverner (surname) Taverner (opera), a 1972 opera by Peter Maxwell Davies Edwin Munroe Bacon (1844–1916), American writer who used the pseudonym...

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:...

ensemble. Their patron until his death in March 2016 was Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Davies was earlier associated with the Fires of London, a group which...

Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow, based on words of George III. The work was written...

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...

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

by Michael Berkeley, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, John Casken, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Thea Musgrave, Edmund Rubbra, Robert Saxton, Sir John Tavener, Sir...

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

Chorister of Winchester Cathedral in the same year. The prolific Peter Maxwell Davies (who had moved to Orkney in 1971) produced one of his most popular...

and Sappho Fragments by Harrison Birtwistle. Leopardi Fragments by Peter Maxwell Davies. Mixtur by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez...