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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (Salford, - ) foi um compositor, pianista e maestro inglês.
Biografia Davies teve aulas piano e composição desde idade precoce. Após terminar o ensino no Leigh Boys Grammar School, estudou na Universidade de Manchester e no Royal College of Music. Entre seus colegas estavam Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth e John Ogdon. Juntos formaram um grupo de música contemporânea chamado Música Nova Manchester.
Depois de 1956 estudou com Goffredo Petrassi, e trabalhou como director musical no Cirencester Grammar School, de 1959 a 1962. Em 1962 obteve uma bolsa na Universidade de Princeton, ajudado por Aaron Copland e Benjamin Britten. Lá estudou com Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt e Earl Kim. Em seguida mudou-se para a Austrália, onde foi compositor residente no Elder Conservatorium of Music, na Universidade de Adelaide, entre 1965 e 1966.
Composições Fantasias on an In nomine of John Taverner (1962; For a large orchestra dividing into several chambers ensembles to be performed) Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968; for singer/narrator/actor and chamber ensemble) Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble) Ave Maris Stella (1975; chamber ensemble) Symphony No. 1 (1976-77; orchestra) The Lighthouse (opera) (1979; chamber opera) Cinderella (1980; children’s opera) Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982; ensemble) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1985; dedicated to Isaac Stern who gave the first performance on June 21, 1986 at the St. Magnus Festival in the Orkney Islands) Caroline Mathilde (1991; ballet) A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (1993; violin, orchestra) Job (1997; singers, orchestra) Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000; chamber opera)
Ligeiros 1953-8 - studied in Manchester and Rome. 1967 - together with Harrison Birtwistle, founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London). 1971 - moved to Hoy in the Orkney Islands. 1987-96 - wrote the ten Strathclyde Concertos for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 2002 - embarked on a cycle of ten string quartets, commissioned by Naxos. 2004 - appointed Master of the Queen’s Music.
Gravações Naxos Quartets Missa parvula; two organ pieces; two motets - Hyperion CDA67454 Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and O Sacrum Convivium - Delphian DCD34037 Symphonies 1 - 6 - BBC Philharmonic/composer - Collins Classics Ave Maris Stella; Image, Reflection, Shadow; Runes from a Holy Island - Fires of London/composer - Unicorn-Kanchana
Alunos Elisabetta Brusa Ronald Caltabiano Ross Edwards (composer) Philip Grange Edward Barnes Haflidi Hallgrímsson Hilda Paredes Gillian Whitehead
Ligações externas A portrait in words of the composer by Stephen Moss in The Guardian Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' homepage at Chester Music Maxwell Davies and the String Quartet CompositionToday article by Paul Driver Peter Maxwell Davies interview with Bruce Duffie Peter Maxwell Davies @ Boosey & Hawkes On An Overgrown Path Tondo di Michelangelo Maxwell Davies's Percussion Repertoire from Bell Percussion's Composer Repertoire Resource
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