Beskrivelse
Peter Maxwell Davies, universally known as Max, was for well over half a century the harlequin of British music: a spirit brilliant, alert and lightly ironic, energetic everywhere and yet always distinctly himself, altogether vital. The scale of his output alone is formidable. He wrote ten symphonies, seventeen concertos and numerous other big orchestral scores. During two decades of work with his own group, the Fires of London, he produced close on a hundred pieces, including some of the central examples of music theatre. He also created a wealth of music for school-age children to perform, a sphere to which he contributed more than any other composer of the front rank.
