Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE, where she has been working since 2023.

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 ...

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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 ...