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Peter Maxwell Davies

1934 - 2016

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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music, Davies formed a group dedicated to contemporary music called the New Music Manchester with fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Maxwell Davies has received more than 447,433 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Peter Maxwell Davies is the 1,403rd most popular musician (down from 1,183rd in 2019), the 3,633rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,134th in 2019) and the 221st most popular British Musician.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Peter Maxwell Davies ranks 1,403 out of 2,662. Before him are Harold Budd, Heinrich Schiff, David Hungate, Bernard Sumner, Pyotr Mamonov, and Mike Chapman. After him are Tré Cool, Estas Tonne, Garrick Ohlsson, Alice Tegnér, Henry Padovani, and David Bryan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Peter Maxwell Davies ranks 349. Before him are Ole Madsen, Gilbert Strang, Phạm Minh Mẫn, Junior Wells, Sam Panopoulos, and Jaegwon Kim. After him are Eddy Pieters Graafland, Mário de Araújo Cabral, Joseph Bologna, Joyce Van Patten, Mikio Aoki, and Martin Bangemann. Among people deceased in 2016, Peter Maxwell Davies ranks 333. Before him are Arturo Pomar, Ursula Franklin, Pen Sovan, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gilbert Kaplan, and Heinrich Schiff. After him are Halfdan T. Mahler, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Malick Sidibé, Solomon W. Golomb, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Motiur Rahman Nizami.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Maxwell Davies ranks 3,633 out of 7,765. Before him are Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), Nigella Lawson (1960), Bernard Sumner (1956), Douglas Hartree (1897), Malcolm Campbell (1885), and Francis Willughby (1635). After him are Nicola Sturgeon (1970), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Anthony de la Roché (1700), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), Barnes Wallis (1887), and Joe Fagan (1921).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Peter Maxwell Davies ranks 221. Before him are Myra Hess (1890), Albert Lee (1943), Pete Doherty (1979), Jay Kay (1969), Geoff Nicholls (1948), and Bernard Sumner (1956). After him are Gordon Haskell (1946), Paul Kossoff (1950), Jonny Greenwood (1971), Mick Avory (1944), Gary Barlow (1971), and Roy Wood (1946).

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