Peter Maxwell Davies

Peter Maxwell Davies
Ganwyd	Peter Maxwell Davies  8 Medi 1934  Salford, Manceinion
Bu farw	14 Mawrth 2016  Sanday
Label recordio	EMI Classics
Dinasyddiaeth	Lloegr
Alma mater	Prifysgol Manceinion Coleg Cerdd Brenhinol Manceinion Yysgol Uwchradd Swinton, Moorside Prifysgol Princeton
Galwedigaeth	cyfansoddwr clasurol, arweinydd, athro cerdd, cyfansoddwr cerddoriaeth ffilm, pianydd, cyfansoddwr, addysgwr, cyfansoddwr opera, libretydd
Swydd	Meistr Cerddoriaeth y Brenin
Cyflogwr	Yr Academi Gerdd Frenhinol
Adnabyddus am	Symphony No. 4
Arddull	opera, symffoni
Gwobr/au	CBE, Medal Aur Cymdeithas y Royal Philharmonic, Walter Willson Cobbett Medal

Cyfansoddwr o Loegr a "Meistr Cerddoriaeth y Frenhines" oedd Syr Peter Maxwell Davies (8 Medi 1934 – 14 Mawrth 2016) a adnabyddwyd yn aml fel "Max", ac a drigai ar ynysoedd Hoy, Sanday (Ynysoedd Erch) rhwng 1971 a'i farwolaeth.

Bu'n fyfyriwr ym Mhrifysgol Manceinion ac yna yng Ngholeg Cerdd Brenhinol Manceinion, ble ffurfiodd grŵp a ymddiddorai mewn cerddoriaeth gyfoes gyda Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth a John Ogdon.

Torrodd dir newydd gyda 7 cyfansoddiad a sgwennodd rhwng 1969 i 2011, o: Eight Songs for a Mad King i Kommilitonen! a sgwennodd yn 2011. Sgwennodd hefyd ddeg symffoni, yr olaf Alla ricerca di Borromini yn 2013.

Bu farw o liwcemia.

Gweithiau cerddorol

Opera

• Taverner (1972)
• The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977)
• The Two Fiddlers (1978)
• The Lighthouse (1979)
• Cinderella (1980)
• Resurrection (1987)
• The Doctor of Myddfai (1996)
• Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000)
• Kommilitonen! (2011)

Cerddoriaeth ddramatig arall

• Revelation and Fall (1966)
• Notre Dame des Fleurs (1966)
• Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968)
• Missa super l'Homme armé (1968)
• Blind Man's Buff (1972)
• Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (1974)
• Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (1978)
• The No. 11 Bus (1984)

Bale

• Salome (1978)
• Caroline Mathilde (1991)

Cerddoriaeth ddawns arall

• Vesalii icones (1979)

Cerddorfaol

• St Michael Sonata (1957)
• Prolation (1958)
• Sinfonia (1962)
• First Fantasia on an In nomine of John Taverner (1962)
• Second Fantasia on John Taverner's In Nomine (1964)
• Worldes Blis (1969)
• St Thomas Wake (1969)
• A Mirror of Whitening Light (1977)
• Symffoni rhif 1 (1977)
• Symffoni rhif 2 (1980)
• Symffoni rhif 3 (1984)
• Concerto rhif 1 i Feiolin a Cherddorfa (1985)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 1, obo a cherddorfa (1987)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 2, sielo a cherddorfa (1987)
• Concerto i Drumped a Cherddorfa (1988)
• Symffoni rhif 4 (1989)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 3, corn, trwmped a cherddorfa (1989)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 4, clarinét a cherddorfa (1990)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 5, feiolin, fiola a cherddorfa (1990)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 6, ffliwt a cherddorfa (1991)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 7, bas dwbl a cherddorfa (1992)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 8, basŵn a cherddorfa (1993)
• A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (1993)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 9, picolo, ffliwt alto, cor anglais, clarinét yn E♭, clarinét bas, basŵn dwbl a llinynnau (1993)
• "Strathclyde" Concerto rhif 10, cerddorfa (1993)
• Symffoni rhif 5 (1994)
• Throstle's Nest Junction (1996)
• Symffoni rhif 6 (1996)
• Concerto i Bicolo a Cherddorfa (1996)
• Mavis in Las Vegas (1997)
• Concerto i Biano a Cherddorfa (1997)
• Temenos, with Mermaids and Angels, ffliwt a cherddorfa (1998)
• Swinton Jig (1998)
• Roma Amor (1998)
• A Reel of Seven Fishermen (1998)
• Agorawd, Spinning Jenny (1999)
• Concerto i Gorn a Cherddorfa (1999)
• High on the Slopes of Terror (1999)
• Symffoni rhif 7 (2000)
• Symffoni rhif 8, "Antarctic" (2000)
• Crossing Kings Reach (2001)
• De Assumtione Beatae Mariae Virginis (2001)
• Linguae Ignis, sielo a cherddorfa siambr (2002)
• Das Rauschende der Farbe (2006)
• The Seas of Kirk Swarf, clarinét bas a cherddorfa (2007)
• Port Lockroy, Antarctica (2007)
• Agorawd, St Francis of Assissi (2009)
• Concerto rhif 2 i Feiolin a Cherddorfa, "Fiddler on the Shore" (2009)
• Musica benevolens (2011)
• Symffoni rhif 9 (2012)
• Symffoni rhif 10, "Alla ricerca di Borromini" (2013)

Corawl

• Five Motets (1959)
• O magnum mysterium (1960)
• Te lucis ante terminum (1961)
• Veni Sancte Spiritus (1963)
• Westerlings (1977)
• Solstice of Light (1979)
• The Three Kings (1995)
• Job (1997)
• A Hymn to the Spirit of Fire (2008)
• The Hogboon (2015)

Cerddoriaeth leisiol arall

• Leopardi Fragments (1961)
• The Shepherd's Calendar (1965)
• Ecce manus tradentis (1965)
• From Stone to Thorn (1971)
• Stone Litany (1973)
• Dark Angels (1974)
• The Blind Fiddler (1976)
• Anakreontika (1976)
• Black Pentecost (1979)
• The Yellow Cake Revue (1980)

Cerddoriaeth siambr

• Alma Redemptoris mater (1957)
• Ricercar and Doubles on 'To Many a Well' (1959)
• String Quartet (1961)
• Seven In Nomine (1963–5)
• Antechrist (1967)
• Eram quasi agnus (1969)
• Hymn to St Magnus (1972)
• Ave Maris Stella (1975)
• Runes from a Holy Island (1977)
• Brass Quintet (1981)
• Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982)
• Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle (2002)
• Naxos Quartet rhif 1 – rhif 10 (2002–7)
• Seven Skies of Winter (2003)
• Piano Quartet (2007)

Cerddoriaeth offerynnol

• Trumpet Sonata (1955)
• Five Pieces, piano (1956)
• Hymnos, clarinét a phiano (1967)
• The Kestrel Paced Round the Sun, ffliwt (1975)
• The Seven Brightnesses, clarinét (1975)
• The Door of the Sun, fiola (1975)
• Piano Sonata (1981)
• Organ Sonata (1982)
• Sea Eagle, corn (1982)
• Litany - for a Ruined Chapel between Sheep and Shore, trwmped (1999)
• Veni Creator Spiritus, ffliwt, clarinét bas (2002)

Rhagflaenydd Malcolm Williamson

Meistr Cerddoriaeth y Frenhines 2004–2014

Olynydd Judith Weir