Fantasy No. 1 with fugue in C major, K. 394 (''Fantasie'' in German) is a piece of music for solo piano composed by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

in 1782. The fantasy begins with an ''adagio'' tempo indication. The opening bars feature strong dynamic contrasts. ('' Forte'' in bar 1 suddenly changes to ''

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

'' in bar 2). The opening ''adagio'' changes to ''andante'' 8 bars later; at this point the right hand starts playing triplet

semiquavers Figure 1. A 16th note with stem facing up, a 16th note with stem facing down, and a 16th rest. Figure 2. Four 16th notes beamed together. In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the dura ...

, whilst the left hand moves above the right hand for rising quaver

arpeggios A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat some of the notes from the chord and span one or more octaves. An arpeggio () is a type of broken chord, in which the notes that compose a chord are played ...

and then back down to play a descending dotted

semiquaver Figure 1. A 16th note with stem facing up, a 16th note with stem facing down, and a 16th rest. Figure 2. Four 16th notes beamed together. In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the dura ...

in its normal position alternately. The tempo marking changes again, this time to ''piu adagio'' before a final ''tempo primo'' 8 bars later. The fantasy ends in G major, the dominant of C major.
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The

Fugue In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...

is marked ''andante maestoso'', which changes to ''adagio'' for the final 2 bars. The fugue ends in the tonic key,

C major C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common keys used in music. Its key signature has no flats or sharps. Its relative minor is A minor and ...

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