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Fantasia in D minor, K. 397

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This guide follows Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 (1782) in one part.

Recording: Fazıl Say (piano) (2024)

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The is a run of dark arpeggios that swells to a dramatic pause. Then the (A) begins, with a simple, plaintive melody full of sighing appoggiaturas (leaning notes that resolve downward) over chords. Fast, -like passages interrupt it. In section B the music brightens into an in D major, and its are the ones believed to be Müller's.

  1. A

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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPianoClassical periodD minor

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