Fantasia No. 1 with Fugue in C Major, K. 394 (Mozart)
Movements
i Fantasia, ii Fugue
Notes
Fantasy No. 1 with fugue in C major is a piece of music for solo piano composed by Mozart in 1782 which he wrote down at the insistence of his wife Constanze (Mozart usually improvised fugues; the title “Fantasia” is not Mozart’s and is misleading in view of the obviously baroque structure of the piece). The work was written at a time in Mozart’s life when his preoccupation with the polyphonic techniques of the Baroque era had triggered a lasting creative crisis, forcing him to come to terms individually with his great idols Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel.
The Fantasia and Fugue K.394 was one of the results from his interest in counterpoint.
