Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, född 8 september 1934 i Salford, Greater Manchester, död 14 mars 2016 på Sanday, Orkneyöarna,[1] var en brittisk kompositör och dirigent. Han utnämndes 2004 till Master of the Queen's Music (för en period om tio år).
Maxwell Davies bodde under lång tid på Orkneyöarna, först på Hoy och senare på Sanday.
Verk (urval)
- Revelation & Fall (tonsättning av Georg Trakls "Offenbarung und Untergang"; 1966) för sopran och 16 instrument
- Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) (opera)
- Taverner (1972) (opera)
- The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1976) (opera)
- The Two Fiddlers (1978) (opera)
- Fyren (The Lighthouse) (1979) (kammaropera)
- The Rainbow (1981) (opera)
- An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1985)
- Resurrection (1987) (opera)
- Symphony No.5 (1994)
- The Doctor of Myddfai (1995) (opera)
- Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (1999) (opera)
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Författare/Upphovsman: University of Salford Press Office, Licens: CC BY 2.0
(Image shows Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)
The UK’s highest-ranking composer has joined one of the country’s leading new music ensembles and students at the University of Salford to create a unique interactive online project.
Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, oversaw the recording of his piece Eight Songs for a Mad King by the University’s official MediaCityUK Ensemble – Manchester-based contemporary music group Psappha – in the Digital Performance Lab at the University’s MediaCityUK building.
This definitive recording has now been combined with gaming technology to produce a web-based virtual environment which forms part of The Space, an experimental digital arts media service supported by the BBC and funded by Arts Council England.