Haydn explores a strangely contoured theme in the opening of this sonata. The music develops into a chase of voices with flourishes on either hand that are appropriate to the pursuit. The music is a little stagy but it has manner without being mannered. It gathers repeatedly for a leap and expands with a propulsive forward movement to an end that, although brilliant, seems to lack resolution. The second, and last, movement is a minuet but a very ornate one. The minuet is almost invisible under the elaborate ornamentation and its source of power springs from the first movement. In its progress it sheds its complexity so that the minuet emerges. The movement is in two parts with the second part involving a switch of the material from one hand to the other. As with many of Haydn's sonatas the end is simple and totally without ceremony, sufficient and graceful.

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