Fantasia No. 2 (Mozart)

Fantasia No. 2 in C minor, K. 396/385f (German: Fragment einer Fantasie in c) is a fragment of a violin sonata composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna in August or September 1782.

Bar 1, featuring triplet hemidemisemiquavers
Bar 1, featuring triplet sixty-fourth notes (hemidemisemiquavers)

Its tempo marking is adagio. The fragment consists of 27 bars, the violin part entering at bar 23.

Maximilian Stadler later composed a "completion" of the work for solo piano which is 70 bars long and ends in C major. A copy of the piece in Stadler's hand contains a dedication to Constanze Mozart.[1] It is this version which is usually performed and recorded. "The authorship of the stormy development section is unclear; it has not been determined whether Stadler had Mozart's sketch for this section which has since been lost or it was completely his own creation."[2]

See also

Notes
  1. Zaslaw, Neal, with Cowdery, William eds., The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, pp. 295–296, New York: W. W. Norton, 1990, ISBN 0-393-02886-0
  2. Mami Hayashida (2007). From Sonata and Fantasy to Sonata-Fantasy: Charting a Musical Wvolution (doctoral dissertation). University of Kentucky. p. 13.
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