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.

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 ...

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.

Composer Judith Weir (L), the new Master of the Queen's Music and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, previous Master of the Queen's Music, during a private audience with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...