Its main theme had previously appeared at the end of the composer's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra and in his Sonatas and Interludes, and it liberally quotes Alphonse Allais' Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man.
Frank Zappa covered this piece in 1993, and a 90-second jazz version was played on the BBC's The Fast Show. Its main theme had previously appeared at the end of the composer's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra and in his Sonatas and Interludes, and it liberally quotes Alphonse Allais' Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man. Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's use of negative space, it was premiered at Woodstock in 1952 by avant-garde pianist David Tudor, who closed the keyboard's lid to begin of each movement of, for 10 points, what most famous piece by John Cage in which no notes are played?
Frank Zappa covered this piece in 1993, and a 90-second jazz version was played on the BBC's The Fast Show.
{4}'{33}'' (“Four Minutes, 33 Seconds”; do not accept a performance of the piece, no matter how virtuosic)