The piano piece "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds" is a piece composed by composer John Cage.

When playing, the composer invites the pianist to come on stage and sit down in front of the piano. The audience sat under the lights and waited quietly. For 1 minute, there was no movement. For 2 minutes, there was no movement. For 3 minutes, people started to commotion, looking left and right, wondering what was going on. At 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the pianist stood up and took the curtain call: "Thank you everyone, I just played "4" successfully. "Minutes and 33 Seconds"."

His silent music "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds" is astonishing. As a pioneer of performance art, he continues to create musical sensations. A tireless musical experimenter, he abandoned traditional playing techniques and composition techniques. He is famous as the pioneer of the "added piano", which puts various objects on or between the strings of a traditional piano to change the original sound and timbre.

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"4 Minutes and 33 Seconds", a masterpiece. "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds" is the most famous and unprecedented silent piece. The rest of the piece is 4 minutes and 33 seconds long, setting a world record for the longest rest. He said that the boundaries between art and life should be erased, and the world itself should be a work of art. Music is a process from hope to disappointment to despair, and "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds" is such a process.

Roger Wright, the director of BBC Classic Music Station "Radio 3", said that "4 Minutes and 33 Seconds" is an American classic, but people have talked about it a lot before and performed it rarely. The performance at the Barbican Center in London will be the first time the piece has been broadcast in the UK and will be broadcast on BBC TV later in the day.

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