"US composer/artist John Cage's most famous and controversial 1952 work, called 4'33"", requires the musician(s) to play for its entire three-movement 4mins 33secs duration?"
John Cage is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is often assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance. The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance. Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound
4′33″ 4′33″ 4′33″ (pronounced "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "Four thirty-three")<ref name="Solomon 1998/2002">Solomon 1998/2002.</ref> is a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, and the score instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during the entire duration of the piece throughout the three movements. The piece consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, although it is commonly perceived as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence". The title of the piece refers to the total length in minutes