Peter Maxwell Davies
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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Further Reading: Davies, Peter Maxwell
Composer Guides,
Peter Maxwell Davies: A postcard from Hoy, and a farewell to Stromness
An account of a miniature Presto Pilgrimage over the summer holiday, in search of the former home of Peter Maxwell Davies in the Orkney Islands.
Obituary,
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 1934-2016
A short tribute to the composer, whose death aged 81 was announced earlier today.
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Popular Works: Davies, Peter Maxwell
- A Voyage to Fair Isle (3)
- An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (6)
- Ave Maris Stella (3)
- Dances from 'The Two Fiddlers' (3)
- Farewell to Stromness (31)
- First Grace of Light for solo oboe (2)
- Five Piano Pieces, Op. 2 (2)
- Hill Runes (3)
- Hymn to the Word of God (3)
- Hymnos (2)
- Leopardi Fragments, op. 18 (2)
- Litany for a ruined chapel between sheep and shore (4)
- Little Quartet No.1 (2)
- Little Quartet No.2 (2)
- Lullaby for Ilian Rainbow (2)
- Lullabye for Lucy (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 1 (3)
- Naxos Quartet No. 3 (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 7 'Metafore sul Borromini' (2)
- Naxos Quartet No. 8 (2)
- O magnum mysterium (11)
- One star, at last (3)
- Psalm 124 (2)
- Reliqui domum meum for organ (2)
- Renaissance Scottish Dances (2)
- Sea Eagle for solo horn, Op. 103 (7)
- Seven in Nomine (2)
- St Thomas Wake (3)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, Op. 179 (3)
- String Quartet (2)
- Symphony No. 1 (2)
- The Fader of Heven (6)
- Three Organ Voluntaries (2)
- Trumpet Concerto (3)
- Trumpet Sonata, Op. 1 (4)
- Turris Campanarum Sonantium (2)
- Veni Creator Spiritus for organ (2)
- Veni Sancte Spiritus for unaccompanied full choir (2)
- Violin Concerto (3)
- Yesnaby Ground (6)
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