It was dedicated to Dussek's fellow composer and virtuoso pianist, Muzio Clementi.

This movement is very harmonically advanced for its time, prefiguring the works of piano composers such as Chopin, Liszt, and Alkan and "must have greatly astonished the musical public..."[2] The third movement is in minuet and trio form in 3/4 time.

The fourth and last movement is in rondo form and returns to the sonata's home key of E-flat major.

"[3] The pianist Frederick Marvin said that "The work actually could have been a model for the Les Adieux Sonata by Beethoven ten years later."

Marvin further points out the similarities in motives and form in Beethoven's sonata to Dussek's.