- 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.
- Contemporary Composer – Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Arnold Whittall celebrates a great British composer and recommends some key recordings...
- Composer Peter Maxwell Davies lost his battle with leukemia last Monday, at the age of 81.
- Peter Maxwell Davies: This is something that if a composer is not interested in it is at his peril.
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer, conductor, and teacher whose powerfully innovative music made him one of the most influential British...
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH CBE (born 8 September 1934, Salford, Lancashire, England – died 14 March 2016, Hoy, Orkney Islands) was an English composer...
- 2 cd Decca/Universal Classics, 2004, No. 475 6166. Peter MAXWELL DAVIES, Ave Maris Stella, Psalm 124, Dove, Star-Folded, Economies of Scale.
- Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: I've lived in the Orkneys since 1970, first on Hoy and now on the more distant island of Sanday.
- The British composer (1934-2016) Peter Maxwell Davies achieved a unique blend of adventurous experimentalism and passion for older musical forms.
- The website of the Peter Maxwell Davies Trust contains a comprehensive catalogue of the composer's work, as well as information about the man and his music.
Peter Maxwell Davies
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Genel bilgiler
Peter Maxwell Davies (d. 8 Eylül 1934, Manchester), avant-garde İngiliz besteci.
Müzik yapıtlarında olduğu kadar öğretim yöntemlerinde de yenilikçiğiyle tanınmıştır.
Başlıca yapıtları arasında St. Michael Sonatı (1957), Prolation (1958) gibi orkestra yapıtları, O Magnum Mysterium (1960; Oh Büyük Giz) ve Veni Sancte Spiritus (1963; Vakur Bir Ruhla Geldim) gibi korolu besteleri, Taverner (1962-68; Hancı) operası, Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969; Deli Bir Kral İçin Sekiz Şarkı), Salome (1978) balesi ve Sinfonia Concertante’ı (1983) sayılabilir.
Kısa bilgiler
- Doğum tarihi ve yeri:8 Eylül 1934, Salford
- Ölüm tarihi ve yeri:14 Mart 2016 (81 yaşında), Sanday