Vexations

Vexations is a work for piano composed by Erik Satie in 1893. At the head of partition the type-setter writes this note : to be played 840 times of continuation this reason, it will be good to prepare as a preliminary, and in greatest silence, by serious immobilities . Work (of form has - A1 - has - A2) is a repetition of a single reason has and its harmonizations A1, A2 played 840 times of continuation without stop. The tempo is read Très slow without metronomic indication. The complete execution of work can vary between fourteen and twenty-four hours, according to the tempo adopted by the interpreters.

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