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 ...

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Composer and conductor who set out as an enfant terrible but mellowed after move to Orkney His sense of social responsibility was threaded through many of his works ...

Celebrated British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a former Master of the Queen's Music, dies at the age of 81.

Celebrated British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a former Master of the Queen's Music, dies at the age of 81.

The Maxwell String Quartet frequently fields questions about being an all-male ensemble. In fact, the Scottish group had to set the record straight in its hometown Glasgow newspaper, The Herald, wh… ...

On a midsummer day on Saturday, June 21, 1980, in a Victorian Hotel on the Orkney Islands, resident composer Peter Maxwell Davies and actress Eleanor Bron performed the composer’s newest piece ...

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, co mposer and former Master of the Queen's Music has died, his management has said.

There are whole books to be compiled about the extraordinary diversity of the music written by British composers born during the 1930s; Alexander Goehr, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, ...