apparently the composer Erik Satie (famous for his Gymnopedies) wrote a piece of music called Vexations that has, at the beginning, instructions on how best to prepare oneself to play the piece 840 times in a row. Nowhere is there any actual indication that anyone would ever want to do this, but the instructions are there just in case anyone does.

@Felthry To be fair it was written in a time before radio existed and before recorded media became publicly accessible, so if you were a piano player working in a bar or wherever there was a *very* real chance you'd end up playing the same piece a bunch of times in a given night.

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@Thaminga @Felthry a quick look at some of Satie's other compositions suggests that he was actually just one of the first musical shitposters

consider, for instance, his four-handed piano opus "three pieces in the shape of a pear", which consists of seven pieces that all have nothing to do with pears

the seven pieces are named as such:
1. A way of beginning
2. More of the same
3. Piece I
4. Piece II
5. Piece III
6. And more
7. Rehash

@Thaminga @Felthry there's also "True Flabby Preludes (for a dog)", which brings me joy

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