Fantasy in D minor (K.397) (Piano with fingering)

Mozart Fantasy in D minor (K.397) (Piano with fingering)

The autograph manuscript of the Fantasy in D minor being lost, we have instead drawn on the first edition of 1804, which, however, is incomplete, breaking off at bar 97.  The ending familiar today, and the one we have included in our edition (appropriately indicated), only appeared in a later print (Leipzig, 1806).  It may safely be assumed that this ending was added by someone else, that person presumably being the then cantor of Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, August Eberhard Müller (1767–1817).

For the first time an Urtext edition of Mozart’s Fantasy for Piano in D minor K.397 (385g) is available with tried-and-tested fingering provided by well-known pianist Matthias Kirschnereit.  The edition is based on the authoritative Urtext of the New Mozart Edition along with a Foreword on the work’s genesis, sources, and performance suggestions.

- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition