(Second Movement) D minor, 2/4 time

This is a slow Andante movement, characterized by a strong contrast between a serious theme in D minor and a bright-sounding theme in D major.

In the D minor section, a harmonized theme first appears over a staccato bass line. This is followed by a characteristic dotted-rhythm theme over a sustained tremolo on the dominant (A) (m. 9ff.). Subsequently, the initial theme returns, this time played in octaves (m. 17ff.). The music then modulates to D major, introducing a theme with dotted rhythms and staccato sixteenth-note triplets (m. 23ff.).

From measure 39, the music returns to D minor, and the opening theme is recapitulated. However, the section that was merely repeated by a repeat sign in the first half is now decoratively varied and treated in a developmental manner. Finally, the theme from the D major section appears in D minor (m. 89ff.), concluding this three-part movement.