Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia No. 3 (Mozart)
Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397/385g (Fantasy in English, Fantasie in German) is a piece of music for solo piano composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782. Despite the fact it was finished by
Structure#
The Fantasia runs to just over 100 measures, in a single multi-tempo movement marked Andante – Adagio – Presto – Tempo primo – Presto – Tempo primo – Allegretto, and a full performance takes approximately five or six minutes. The Austrian composer and academic Gerhard Präsent has published an extensive analysis of the Fantasia that reveals highly interesting structural correlations between the different parts of the composition. He has also made an arrangement for string quartet in four movements, called the Fantasy Quartet in D, in which this piece is the first movement.
Further reading#
- Ephraim Hackmey, “Mozart’s Unfinished Fantasy / Thoughts about the Fantasy in D minor, K. 397”
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart