Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni
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The Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni[1] (German: Fantasie über Themen aus Mozarts Figaro und Don Giovanni),[2] S.697, is an operatic paraphrase for solo piano by Franz Liszt, based on themes from two different Mozart's operas: The Marriage of Figaro, K.492 and Don Giovanni, K.527.
Liszt composed the work by the end of 1842 or early 1843, as he performed it at the latest in Berlin on 11 January 1843, when Mozart would have been 86, had he lived. Left as an unfinished manuscript upon Liszt's death, it was both completed and recorded by the pianist Leslie Howard in 1993 and published in 1997. Earlier, Ferruccio Busoni had published a much shorter performing version, the Fantasy on Two Motives from W. A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, in 1912.[3] Busoni's version, which does not include the music based on Don Giovanni, is often nicknamed the "Figaro Fantasy".
A typical performance lasts approximately thirteen minutes for Busoni's completion and over twenty minutes for Howard's later reconstruction.