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Vexations piano score. Vexations is a musical work by Erik Satie.Apparently conceived for keyboard (although the single page of manuscript does not specify an instrument), it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are heard alternatingly unaccompanied and played with chords above.
The musicologist Mark Bennett and the composer Humphrey Searle have said that John Cage's music shows Satie's influence, [70] and Searle and the writer Edward Strickland have used the term "minimalism" in connection with Satie's Vexations, which the composer implied in his manuscript should be played over and over again 840 times. [71]
Bonjour Biqui and the piano piece Vexations are constructed entirely from "ambiguous diminished chords" first found in the Danses gothiques, which Satie completed on March 23, 1893 in an attempt to regain his composure in the midst of his stormy romance; [4] and the Vexations begins with the same chord with which Bonjour Biqui ends, almost as ...
On Monday, Jan. 27, the U.K. newspaper The Times announced that Levit, 37, will attempt to play composer Erik Satie’s vexing Vexations 840 times in a row, following Satie's original instructions ...
Erik Satie. In this list of Erik Satie's musical compositions, those series or sets comprising several pieces (e.g., Gnossienne 1, Gnossienne 2, etc.) with nothing but tempo indications to distinguish the movements by name, are generally given with the number of individual pieces simply stated in square brackets.
Serious Immobilities: On the Centenary of Erik Satie's Vexations – a 1994 paper by Stephen Whittington on the relationship between Furniture Music and Vexations. A Suite of Furniture – all five of Satie's pieces of Furniture Music, with a sixth piece from Sports et Divertissements, in piano quintet arrangement.
Stephen Whittington (born 13 August 1953) is an Australian composer, pianist, teacher and writer of music. ... On the Centenary of Erik Satie's Vexations;
Unusually, he has given four uninterrupted solo performances of Satie’s 24-hour Vexations." [ 9 ] Cameron-Wolfe also performs the works of lesser-played composers of the early 20th century who provided the transition from late Romanticism into post-World War II “sound art”. [ 10 ]