{"id":2220,"date":"2014-06-09T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:13:38","slug":"a-%e2%80%9cnew%e2%80%9d-mozart-work-on-the-c-minor-%e2%80%9cfantasy%e2%80%9d-k-396385f-in-its-original-setting-for-violin-and-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2014\/06\/09\/a-%e2%80%9cnew%e2%80%9d-mozart-work-on-the-c-minor-%e2%80%9cfantasy%e2%80%9d-k-396385f-in-its-original-setting-for-violin-and-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cnew\u201d Mozart work. On the c-minor \u201cFantasy\u201d (K. 396\/385f) in its original setting for violin and piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>In the year 1821 three distinguished personalities met in Weimar: Goethe, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Mozart. Mozart, of course, not in person, but in the form of his original manuscript that Goethe owned at the time (and that he identified on page 2 as \u201cMozart.\u201d): <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The young Mendelssohn with Goethe<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a fragment of an extant piece in c minor, known up to the present as the piano \u201cFantasy in c minor\u201d in the K\u00f6chel works\u2019 catalogue under the number 396 (385f). The occasion of 1821, as well known as charming, is that with the Mozart fragment the elderly Goethe wanted to test the exceptionally gifted Felix, only 12 years old, who had come with Carl Friedrich Zelter on a visit to Weimar. Goethe had Felix sight read the Mozart autograph at the piano.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span> The boy must have acquitted himself well, for Goethe\u2019s admiration of Mendelssohn (\u201cnew Mozart\u201d \u2013 \u201cmy David\u201d) is legendary. <\/span><\/p>\n

And now, violinists and pianists, prick up your ears! This c-minor Fantasy K. 396 (385f) is shortly going to re-emerge in the G. Henle Verlag, but now in its original setting. It is not even a piano solo work at all, but a well-developed fragment for piano and violin. It was only established as a<\/span> piano Piece<\/a> owing to its very successful completion by Maximilian Stadler, and it is popular with many pianists on account of its \u201ctragic\u201d c-minor tone. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n