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...

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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),...

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...

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

is principally identified with the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, and together with the pianist John Ogdon and...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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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...

and Sappho Fragments by Harrison Birtwistle. Leopardi Fragments by Peter Maxwell Davies. Mixtur by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Rhythmicana by Henry Cowell, for...

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...

Antarctic Symphony) is an orchestral composition by Peter Maxwell Davies, completed on 15 December 2001. Davies had announced prior to its premiere that his...

works in this genre, among them compositions by Mikis Theodorakis, Peter Maxwell Davies, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki,...

that her appointment as Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced;...

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...

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...

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

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

(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...