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Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costume and capable of playing chess. The chess player turned out to be a fraud but sparked many other thinkers and inventors to pondering what the possibilities of automation might be.
In Hesketh’s highly virtuosic work, the through-composed melody is subjected to a series of distortions by pulleys, cams, gears and cranks. There are also the onomatopoeic effects of winding up and whirring noises that add to the air of the mechanical.
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Title:
The Mechanical Turk
for solo oboe
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2002
Duration:
8 ′
World Premiere:
September 15, 2003 · Cortona (I)
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Dr Margitta Giera
Series:
Title:
The Mechanical Turk
for solo oboe
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2002
Duration:
8 ′
World Premiere:
September 15, 2003 · Cortona (I)
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Dr Margitta Giera
Series:
Title:
The Mechanical Turk
for solo oboe
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2002
Duration:
8 ′
World Premiere:
September 15, 2003 · Cortona (I)
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Hansjörg Schellenberger, oboe
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Dr Margitta Giera
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 13220
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3458-6
Product number:
ED 13220
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3458-6
UPC:
841886021976
Weight:
0,1 kg
Pages:
12
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
ED 13220 Q20514
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3458-6
Pages:
11
File format:
(PDF / 415,32 KB)
Performances
The Mechanical Turk
August 31, 2013 |
Northumberland (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Healey Church
19:30
The Mechanical Turk
July 19, 2013 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St Andrew by the Wardrobe, St Andrew's Hill and Queen Victoria Street
The Mechanical Turk
Harwich Festival of the arts 2012
June 19, 2012 |
Harwich (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Ship
The Mechanical Turk
Edwin Roxburgh 70th Birthday Concert
December 20, 2007 |
London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , The Warehouse, Waterloo
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