101, was for many years thought to have been composed in 1783 for Antonín Kraft, a cellist of Prince Nikolaus's Esterházy Orchestra.

New research,[1] published in 2019 by Thomas Tolley and building on discoveries of Simon McVeigh, shows it was neither written for nor debuted by Kraft, an assertion that was made by Kraft's son to musicologist Gustav Schilling, and later repeated in Schilling's influential musical encyclopedias.

However, original advertisements in the London press announced that ‘A new Concerto, Violoncello, Mr Cervetto, composed by Haydn’ had its premier on March 24, 1784 at Hannover Square.

[2] A second performance was advertised a week later as being a ‘Concerto Violoncello, Mr Cervetto, composed by Haydn’.

It is in rondo form, featuring an episode in the dominant key of A major and a more somber digression in D minor.