Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, K. 475 is a composition for solo piano composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
in Vienna on 20 May 1785.
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.
Starting in the
key of
C minor, the piece is marked ''
Adagio'' but then, after a section in
D major
D major is a major scale based on D (musical note), D, consisting of the pitches D, E (musical note), E, F♯ (musical note), F, G (musical note), G, A (musical note), A, B (musical note), B, and C♯ (musical note), C. Its key signature has two S ...
, 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 autograph manuscript of the fantasy and sonata in C minor was auctioned by
Sotheby's on 21 November 1990, and is now preserved in the
International Mozarteum Foundation.
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.
Tchaikovsky arranged the ''Andantino'' section to a vocal quartet with piano by the name "Night" ("Ночь").
Recordings of the fantasy on fortepiano include:
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Paul Badura-Skoda. Mozart. ''Sonates pour la forte-piano, Tome 4''. Label:
Astrée, 1989. Fortepiano by Johann Schantz (c. 1790).
*
Malcolm Bilson. Mozart. ''Piano Sonatas: Complete''. Label:
Hungaroton, 1990. Fortepiano by
Paul McNulty (Amsterdam, 1989) after
Anton Walter (c. 1795).
* Luc Devos. Mozart. ''Klavierstücke''. Label:
Ricercar, 1991. Fortepiano by Claude Kelecom (Bruxelles) after
Johann Andreas Stein.
*
Ronald Brautigam. Mozart. ''The Complete Piano Sonatas''. Label:
BIS Records, 1996. Fortepiano by McNulty (Amsterdam, 1992) after Walter (c. 1795).
*
Alexei Lubimov. Mozart. ''Complete Piano Sonatas''. Label:
Erato
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. Fortepiano by Christopher Clarke (1986) after Walter (c. 1795).
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Bart van Oort. Mozart. Label:
Brilliant Classics, 2000. Fortepiano by
Chris Maene (Ruiselede, 1995) after Walter (c. 1795).
*
Andreas Staier. Mozart. Label:
Harmonia Mundi, 2003. Fortepiano by Monika May (Marburg, 1986) after Walter (c. 1785).
*
Kristian Bezuidenhout. Mozart. ''Keyboard Music, Vol. 1''. Label: Harmonia Mundi, 2009. Fortepiano by Derek Adlam (Welbeck, 1987) after Walter (c. 1795).
* Paul Badura-Skoda. Mozart. ''Paul Badura-Skoda: A Man and His Music''. Label: Kleos Classics. Fortepiano by Walter (1781, Mozart's own).
* Siegbert Rampe. Mozart. ''Complete Clavier Works, Vol. 1''. Label:
MD&G, 2004. Fortepiano by Nikolaus Damm (Hirchhorn near Heidelberg, 1990) after Stein (1788).
* Arthur Schoonderwoerd. Mozart. ''Complete Clavier Sonatas''. Label:
Accent Records, 2005. Fortepiano by Paul Poletti and Gerard Tuinman after Walter (c. 1790).
* John Khouri. Mozart. ''Keyboard Works, 1784-1791''. Label: San Francisco Fortepiano Society, 2007. Fortepiano by Philip Belt and James Kandik, 1973-1984 after Stein, 1784; pedal board by Kandik, Paul Poletti and Malcolm Rose after instrument from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
* Anneke Veenhoff. Mozart. ''Phantasia''. Label:
Ramée, 2009. Fortepiano by Tuinman (Utrecht, 1993) after Walter (c. 1800).
* Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard. Mozart. ''Sonates pour pianoforte avec l'accompagnement d'un violon''. Label:
Éditions Hortus, 2014. Fortepiano by Clarke (2005) after Walter (c. 1790).
*
Robert Levin. Mozart. ''The Piano Sonatas''. Label:
ECM Records, 2017-2018. Fortepiano by Walter (c. 1782, Mozart's own).
References
External links
Autograph manuscript of the fantasyan
first edition of the sonata and fantasy*
Recordings and discographyat the ''Neue Mozart-Ausgabe''
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Performance of Fantasy and Sonata by Paavali Jumppanenfrom the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
MP3 format
Fantasia K.475from Article o
AllAboutMozart.com
Compositions for solo piano
Piano music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1785 compositions
Mozart 4
Compositions in C minor
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