 The turbulent first movement of the work opens in a manner typical of Haydn's "Sturm und Drang" period, with descending minor arpeggios in the first violins against syncopated notes in the second violins and held chords in the winds.The movement can be explained structurally in terms of sonata form, but it departs from the standard model in a number of ways (just before the recapitulation, for example, new material is introduced, which might have been used as the second subject in the exposition in a more conventional work).Also, the exposition moves to C minor, the dominant minor, rather than the more usual relative major.