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Peter Maxwell Davies ENG/SCO [1934-]
Group: New Music Manchester, Polystylism
Short description: Comic quoting. Early works often use serial techniques, sometimes combined with Mediaeval and Renaissance compositional methods. Fragments of plainsong are often used as basic source material to be adapted and developed in various ways. Later experimantal and violent. Polystylism. Uses magic squares. Later style compares to Sibelius. Later works much more accessible (no longer a modernist).
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Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) (31m)
Maxwell - Symphony No. 9 - Helsinki Philharmonic (1-2) (13m)
String Quartet (12m)
A Spell for Green Corn (1993) (20m)
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise (1985) (13m)
Five Klee Pictures Op. 12 (1959-1976) (10m)

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