Played by HILDA DEDERICH
Fantasia in C Minor (K. 457)
HERE Mozart just follows the Lent of his fancy wherover it takes him. The work, which is none the less to be admired for all its unorthodoxies, is very wayward in its keys. Those who are interested in these technical things may observe that it starts in C Minor, makes some surprising modulations which lead into a definite, tuneful section in D Major; that this breaks out into a vigorous quick Movement in A. Minor which leads, after a Cadenza, into a gentle B Flat Movement; that the next quick section is ii) no particular key ; and that the opening returns as a Finale.