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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. [1]
Peter Maxwell Davies, an English composer and conductor, wrote music in many genres, notably ten symphonies and works for the stage, from the monodrama Eight Songs for a Mad King (first performed in 1969) to The Hogboon (scheduled to be performed in June 2016).
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (born September 8, 1934, Salford, near Manchester, England—died March 14, 2016, Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland) was an English composer, conductor, and teacher whose powerfully innovative music made him one of the most influential British composers of the 20th century.
Mar 14, 2016 · Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, celebrated for his prolific and often unpredictable compositions, has died aged 81. The wild child of contemporary music, he delighted in pushing the boundaries to...
Mar 14, 2016 · British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a former Master of the Queen's Music, has died after suffering from leukemia. He was 81. Here The Telegraph's Classical Music critic Ivan Hewett pays...
Mar 14, 2016 · Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 1934-2016. by Chris O'Reilly. The English composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died aged 81, following a long struggle with leukaemia. An astoundingly prolific and versatile composer whose collective output ran to over 300 compositions, his legacy includes ten symphonies, a cycle of string quartets for the Maggini ...
Mar 14, 2016 · The celebrated composer and conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has died aged 81. The Lancashire-born musician was undergoing chemothrapy for leukaemia.
Peter Maxwell Davies (1932-2016) was a composer and conducor born in Stanford, Lancashire, who was Master of the Queen's Music between 2004 and 2014. When he was 14, he submitted his piece, Blue Ice into the Children's Hour radio programme in Manchester, starting his rise to fame.
Mar 14, 2016 · LONDON (AP) — Peter Maxwell Davies, an experimental, socially radical composer who served as Queen Elizabeth II's official master of music, has died. He was 81. Davies' management company, Intermusica, said he died Monday of leukemia at his home in Scotland's Orkney islands.
Mar 23, 2016 · Throughout the 1970s he taught at the Summer School with his ensemble The Fires of London, and went on to become Artistic Director of the Summer School from 1979 to 1984. In 2008 he returned to teach the Advanced Composition course. Read more. The Telegraph: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies dies, aged 81.
