Fantasia in C minor, K. 475

Mozart's Fantasia in C minor, K. 475

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Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, K. 475 is a composition for solo piano composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna on 20 May 1785.^[1] It was published as Opus 11, in December 1785, together with the Sonata in C minor, K. 457, the only one of Mozart's piano sonatas to be published together with a work of a different genre.^[2]

Starting in the key of C minor, the piece is marked Adagio but then, after a section in D major, moves into an allegro section which goes from A minor to G minor, F major, and then F minor. It then moves into a fourth section in B♭ major marked Andantino and then moves to a più allegro section starting in G minor and modulating through many keys before the opening theme returns in the original key of C minor. Most of the music is written with no sharps or flats in the key signature and uses accidentals—only the fourth section, in B♭ major, is given a key signature.

The Austrian composer Ignaz von Seyfried combined this work with the Sonata in C minor, K. 457 and produced a four-movement arrangement for orchestra, the "Grande Fantaisie" in C minor.

References

^ Otto Jahn (5 September 2013). Life of Mozart. Cambridge University Press. pp. 449–. ISBN 978-1-108-06483-5.
^ Stanley Sadie; Dorothea Link; Judith Nagley (2005). Words about Mozart: Essays in Honour of Stanley Sadie. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-0-85115-794-8.

External links

Fantasie in c: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Recordings and discography at the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Fantasy No. 4: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Performance of Fantasy and Sonata by Paavali Jumppanen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
Fantasia K.475 from Article on AllAboutMozart.com