A performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations can last 20 hours. But is it avant-garde art, or a misunderstood joke?

Vexations...is arguably the first ever piece of conceptual art. Erik Satie's Vexations is a single page of music whose instruction from the composer is for it to be ...

In his upcoming performance of Erik Satie’s piece ‘Vexations’ at London’s Southbank Centre, Levit will once again recreate the work exactly per its instructions, repeating it 840 times.

The extreme simplicity of many of Satie’s pieces, their thin textures and strange ... the world record holder for the longest duration of any piece of music, his Vexations, played in New York in 1963, ...

‘Boredom is profound’: next month, virtuoso Igor Levit will perform Vexations by Erik Satie - Peter Rigaud ...