Peter Maxwell Davies (Composer)
Born: 8th September 1934, Salford
Died: 14th March 2016, Sanday
Nationality: English
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a British composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music, Davies formed a group dedicated to contemporary music called the New Music Manchester with fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. Davies’s compositions include eight works for the stage—from the monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King, which shocked the audience in 1969, to Kommilitonen!, first performed in 2011—and ten symphonies, written between 1973 and 2013.
As a conductor, Davies was artistic director of the Dartington International Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and associate conductor/composer with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1992 to 2002, holding the latter position with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as well.
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Popular Works: Davies, Peter Maxwell
- An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (6)
- Ave Maria - Hail blessed flower (1)
- Ave Maris Stella (3)
- Farewell to Stromness (24)
- Five Piano Pieces, Op. 2 (3)
- Hymn to St Magnus (1)
- Hymnos (2)
- Litany for a ruined chapel between sheep and shore (2)
- Little Quartet No.1 (2)
- Little Quartet No.2 (2)
- Mavis in Las Vegas (1)
- Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (1)
- Naxos Quartet No. 1 (3)
- Naxos Quartet No. 2 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 3 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 4 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 5 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 6 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 7 'Metafore sul Borromini' (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 9 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 10 (2)
- O magnum mysterium (12)
- Points and Dances from Taverner (2)
- Renaissance Scottish Dances (2)
- Resurrection (2)
- Sea Eagle for solo horn, Op. 103 (7)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, Op. 179 (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 3 for Horn & Trumpet (1)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 4 (1)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 5 (1)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 6 (1)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 7 (1)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 8 (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 9, Op. 170 (1)
- Symphony No. 1 (3)
- Symphony No. 10 'Alla ricerca di Borromini' (2)
- Symphony No. 2 (1)
- Symphony No. 3 (1)
- Symphony No. 4 (1)
- Symphony No. 5 (1)
- Symphony No. 6 (1)
- Taverner (1)
- The Fader of Heven (6)
- The Lighthouse (1)
- Trumpet Concerto (3)
- Veni Sancte Spiritus for unaccompanied full choir (2)
- Violin Concerto (3)
- Yesnaby Ground (7)