This composer's early works, like Alma Redemptoris mater for wind sextet, show his interest in both serialism and medieval contrapuntal practices.
This composer's early works, like Alma Redemptoris mater for wind sextet, show his interest in both serialism and medieval contrapuntal practices. His interest in the 16th century composer John Taverner led to an eponymous opera, and the 1975 Ave Maris Stella features a 9x9 Latin square associated numerologically with the moon. Later works include the Strathclyde concertos, and he was recently commissioned by the Naxos record label to compose a series of string quartets.  The co-founder of the Pierrot Players with Harrison Birtwhistle, for ten points, identify this English composer of Vesalii Icones and Eight Songs for a Mad King.
This composer's early works, like Alma Redemptoris mater for wind sextet, show his interest in both serialism and medieval contrapuntal practices.
Sir Peter Maxwell {Davies}