| He claims to have found, in the archives of Wiener , a sketch in Beethoven's handwriting of a few lines of Mozart's music which bears the same characteristic triplet figuration transposed to C minor, the key of the sonata | , Beethoven New York: Schirmer Books, 1998 , p |
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| Note that Beethoven wrote "senza sordino"; see above | 14 in , marked Quasi una fantasia, |
Allegretto [ ] The second movement is a relatively conventional and with the first section of the Scherzo not repeated.
28| The movement is played or "very quietly", and the loudest it gets is piano or "quietly" | Weitzman, notes for Chandos 9463, 5 |
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| Published in Vienna by Giovanni Cappi, Michaelerplatz No | As quoted in Holoman, 262 |
Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications.
| See also: , , , and At the opening of the first movement, Beethoven included the following direction in Italian: "Si deve suonare tutto questo pezzo delicatissimamente e senza sordino" "This whole piece ought to be played with the utmost delicacy and without damper[s]" | The Fantaisie-Impromptu is perhaps the only instance where one genius discloses to us — if only by means of a composition of his own — what he actually hears in the work of another genius |
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| Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 rev | Bonds, New Grove 2001 , 24:838 |