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...

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...

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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...

score was composed for a small ensemble by Peter Maxwell Davies. Russell was reportedly intrigued by Davies' composition Eight Songs for a Mad King, which...

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),...

Peter Maxwell Davies wrote pieces with her voice and dramatic ability in mind. She gave the first performances of a number of works by Peter Maxwell Davies...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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

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

Brouwer, Peter Racine Fricker, Hans Werner Henze, Humphrey Searle, Toru Takemitsu, Michael Tippett, William Walton and Peter Maxwell Davies. Britten's...

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

are a series of ten orchestral works by the English composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Commissioned by Strathclyde Regional Council, each work features...

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...

Williams's influence on their development are John Adams, PJ Harvey, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Anthony Payne, Wayne Shorter, Neil Tennant and Mark-Anthony Turnage...

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

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

Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Peter Maxwell Davies, Randy Newman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd...

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

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

be found in the music of Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Demetrio Stratos, Meredith Monk...

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...

Bassarids and Elegy for Young Lovers. Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016) A British modernist of the "Manchester school", Davies wrote many stage works, including...

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...

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