Peter Maxwell Davies, an experimental, socially radical composer who had served as Queen Elizabeth II’s official master of music, died March 14 at his home in Scotland’s Orkney islands. He was 81.

Composer, conductor and one-time enfant terrible who became Master of the Queen’s Music. ... Peter Maxwell Davies was born in Salford, Lancashire, on September 8 1934, an only child.

Peter Maxwell Davies, composer and conductor: born Salford 8 September 1934; CBE 1981, Kt 1987, CH 2014; died Hoy, Orkney Islands 14 March 2016. More about Orkney Islands.

Celebrated British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a former Master of the Queen's Music, has died at the age of 81. He was known for his modern and avant-garde works, but his most famous piece ...

Composer Peter Maxwell Davies on his world-famous music for children, the Kirkwall Shopping Songs.

Prolific and multifaceted British composer and conductor Peter Maxwell Davies died Monday at age 81 at his home in the Orkney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland. His death, from leukemia ...

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 ...

And Max — as he was known — had a life as flamboyant as anything in his music. Though he spent the final 44 years of his life on the remote islands of Orkney, his opinions and his mishaps ...

Davies' management company, Intermusica, says he died Monday of leukemia at his home in Scotland's Orkney islands. By The Associated Press British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, who served as ...