[1] Mozart added the work to his catalogue on June 26, 1788, the same date as his Symphony No. 39.

The familiar opening theme is accompanied by an Alberti bass, played in the left hand.

A bridge passage composed of scales follows, arriving at a cadence in G major, the key in which the second theme is then played.

[3] Grieg's intent was to "impart to several of Mozart's sonatas a tonal effect appealing to our modern ears".

[4] The jazz musician Raymond Scott adapted the opening theme of the first movement for his piece "In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room".