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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- A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (2)
- A Voyage to Fair Isle (3)
- An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (6)
- Ave Maris Stella (3)
- Bist du bei mir, oder...? (2)
- Caroline Mathilde – Ballet Suites (2)
- Cello Sonata ‘Sequentia Serpentigena’ (2)
- Dances from 'The Two Fiddlers' (3)
- Eight Songs for a Mad King (2)
- Farewell to Stromness (26)
- Five Klee Pictures (2)
- Five Piano Pieces, Op. 2 (3)
- Hill Runes (3)
- Hymn to the Word of God (3)
- Midhouse Air (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 1 (3)
- Naxos Quartet No. 4 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 6 (2)
- Nowell (2)
- O magnum mysterium (11)
- Piano Quartet (2)
- Piano Sonata (2)
- Resurrection (2)
- Sea Eagle for solo horn, Op. 103 (7)
- Sir Charles his Pavan (2)
- Solstice of Light (2)
- Sonata for Violin & Piano (2)
- St Thomas Wake (3)
- Stone Litany (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, Op. 179 (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 (2)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 8 (2)
- Symphony No. 10 'Alla ricerca di Borromini' (2)
- The Devils: Suite (2)
- The Fader of Heven (6)
- The Pole Star March (2)
- Trumpet Concerto (3)
- Trumpet Sonata, Op. 1 (4)
- Violin Concerto (3)
- Yesnaby Ground (7)
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