Erik Satie ... VEXATIONS [excerpt I] (1893)

— Alan Marks, piano — Alfred Erik Leslie Satie, dit Erik Satie, né a Honfleur le 17 mai 1866 et mort à Paris le 1er juillet 1925. En tête de partition, le compositeur écrit cette note : « Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses » — "In order to play the theme 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities".

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[TheMetalMusicMachine]

That clock has Everything to do with the Music!!! Time has disappeared completely!!! No divisions! No lines, no angles!

[OMaclac]

Merci.

[fritstube]

It was sometime during the 1980's. I was a concierge at the Amsterdamsch Conservatorium. There was a concert going on and it ran late. I wanted to lock up and checked what was going on. A pianist had just given a recital and gave this piece as an encore! I knew the piece, because Reinbert de Leeuw had just performed it on Dutch television. After about 20 minutes the audience left one by one. When the pianist was alone (we were the only two left in the building) I very slowly dimmed the light ...

[superiorpatrician]

just 18.

[Anna Buchenhorst]

A sensitive interpretation!

[gus rolls]

why wasn't this in the shining's sound track??????

[bob121362]

So I'm supposed to stand you existing for 70 years straight?

[Shobute]

I listened to all Beethoven concertos and symphonies all Bach Prelude and Fugues, Rachmaninoff concertos, symphonies, vespers seperetaly and preludes-moments musicaux, etudes tableaux and suites together, all Chopin Preludes, Nocturnes and Etudes together, all Concertos and Ballades together, I watched Der Ring des Nibelungen without a single stop. I like doing this but this is way too extreme...

[James Smethurst]

Bbc radio 3 did this once overnight (god bless 'em!) outrageous but needed!

[ageha427]

I always want to listen to something when I am working. But most of the music are too piercing. And this piece suits me well though it may sounds a little weird.

[Tomáš Mika]

I think it's 840 times.

[DWalkthroughGuy]

I think this song has to be repeated 48,000 times.

With NO mistakes.