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

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, unprepared harmonies, coupled with his idiosyncratic sense of humour, have led many to view him as the clown (or the ...

In an Instagram post ahead of the gig, Nielsen wrote, “furniture music tomorrow”—a reference to Erik Satie’s musique d’ameublement, a style of background music the French composer ...