Second Movement: A Major, 3/4 Time, Minuet

Both the Minuet and the Trio are composed in binary form, with each section (first and second halves) having repeat signs.

The Minuet theme is reminiscent of the opening theme of the first movement of K. 309. The first half concludes in the dominant key through a passage of sixteenth notes, but this passage appears in the tonic key in the second half.

The Trio modulates to D major, the subdominant key. The first half is characterized by stepwise motion in parallel thirds and sixths. In the second half, the Trio theme first appears in E minor and then develops into a resolute descending figure in four-octave unison. Utilizing a motive from the latter half of the Minuet's main section, the theme passes through C major, F major, and D minor before the Trio theme returns in D major.

Such tonal structure in binary form, along with the development of the theme in the Trio section, closely approaches sonata form.