Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, K. 475 is a piece of music for solo piano composed by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

in Vienna on 20 May 1785. It was published as Opus 11, in December 1785, together with the Sonata in C minor, K. 457, the only one of Mozart's piano sonatas to be published together with a work of a different genre. Starting in the key of

C minor C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature consists of three flats. Its relative major is E major and its parallel major is C major. The C natural minor scale is: : Cha ...

, the piece is marked ''

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'' but then, after a section in

D major D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative minor is B minor and its parallel minor is D minor. The D major scale is: : Ch ...

, moves into an ''allegro'' section which goes from A minor to G minor, F major, and then F minor. It then moves into a fourth section in B major marked ''Andantino'' and then moves to a ''più allegro'' section starting in

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and modulating through many keys before the opening

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returns in the original key of C minor. Most of the music is written with no sharps or flats in the

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and uses accidentals—only the fourth section, in B major, is given a key signature. The Austrian composer

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combined this work with the Sonata in C minor, K. 457 and produced a four-movement arrangement for orchestra, the "Grande Fantaisie" in C minor.

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