Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 unfolds like a spontaneous drama: a tense opening, a luminous singing episode, and a return to darker, urgent rhetoric—with a glimpse of light at the end. Its emotional range has made it a favorite for generations of pianists, and a compelling gateway into Mozart’s more searching keyboard style.
The work survives through a posthumous publication of an unfinished manuscript once in the possession of Constanze Mozart. First published in 1804 in an incomplete form, it appeared again two years later in the Œuvres complètes, this time with the familiar conclusion adopted by subsequent publishers—an ending long treated as authentic and now commonly attributed to August Eberhard Müller.
This SuperScore album includes an Interactive Urtext Edition, Fingered Version, MIDI Performance by George F. Litterst, Historical Commentary by George F. Litterst, a Facsimile Cover of the First Edition, and Facsimile Images from the Œuvres complètes, so you can listen, learn, and practice hands separately or together at any tempo.
Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397
