Universal Edition - David Sawer – the greatest happiness principle | for orchestra

David Sawer
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David Sawer
the greatest happiness principle | for orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 1997
Scored for: for orchestra
Composer: David Sawer
Instrumentation: 3 2 3 2 - 4 3 4 1 - timp, perc(3), hp, str(12 10 8 8 6)
Instrumentation details: 3(2&3/picc, 3/alto)·2(2/eng hn)·3(2/Eb, 3/bcl)·2(2/cbn) - 4·3·4·1 - perc(3) - hp - strings (12 10 8 8 6)
Commissioned by: Commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Duration (min): 12
Dedication: to Mark

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World Première
Location: St. David's Hall Cardiff / Great Britain
Date: 06.06.1997
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Work Introduction

This piece was inspired by the utopian ideas of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and especially by his application of the panoptic principle to prison design.

This design allowed an observer to observe all the prisoners without the prisoners themselves being able to tell whether they [...]

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