Welcome to MaxOpus
The Official Website of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
This is the World Wide Web information server of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (widely known as 'Max'), compiled and maintained by Judy Arnold.
This web site - MaxOpus - consists of approximately 300MB of on-line data. There is information on each of Max's 200 published works, with details of performing forces, instrumentation, publishers, commercial recordings and programme notes. There are over 200 sixty-second sound samples, 25 thirty-second video clips and more than 600 photographs and images including those of dramatic productions. Max himself gives a spoken introduction to thirty-five of the works.
Information is organised into the following topics:
The PhotoCD images available for publication are by John Batten.
Site design is by Keith Marlow and the site editor is Ruth Thackeray.
Site content was last updated on 1st October, 2006.