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FILE - This is a June 19, 1996 file photo of composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies posing for a photograph in London. Maxwell Davies, who served as Queen Elizabeth II's official master of music, has died at 81. Davies' management company, Intermusica, says he died Monday March 14, 2016 of leukemia at his home in Scotland's Orkney islands. One of Britain's best-known modern composers, Davies created some 300 works including symphonies, the operas "Taverner" and "The Lighthouse," and "Eight Songs for a Mad King," about the current queen's troubled ancestor, George III. (AP Photo, File)
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