Anthony Burgess composition, among other things attempting a fictional representation of Symphony No.40. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 features prominently in "A Clockwork Orange" (and in Stanley Kubrick's film version of the novel). Many of his unpublished compositions are listed in "This Man and Music". He wrote a good deal of music for recorder as his son played the instrument. Several of his pieces for recorder and piano including the Sonata No. 1, Sonatina and "Tre Pezzetti" have been included on a major CD release from recorder player John Turner and pianist Harvey Davies; the double album also includes related music from 15
Clockwork mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys. The earliest known example of a clockwork mechanism is the Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC geared analogue computer, somewhat astrolabe-like, for calculating astronomical positions and eclipses, recovered from a Greek shipwreck. There are many other accounts of clockwork devices in ancient Greece, even in its mythology, and the mechanism itself is sophisticated enough to indicate a significant history of lesser devices leading up to its creation. At some point, this level of sophistication in clockwork technology was lost or forgotten in Europe, and only returned