The serenade is scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 Natural horns, and 2 bassoons.
The oboes carry the melody with the bassoons answering one bar later.
The minor key made it more personal and gave a deeper sense of emotion, which was not the standard of the music or instrumentation of the time.
[2] This serenade while also transcribed to be played as a string quartet was originally composed as a Harmonie being performed with eight wind instruments consisting of pairs of Bassoons, Clarinets, Oboes, and Horns.
[3] While many works of the time and prior were written for background music to greater purposes such as dance or worship, this work’s more profound themes and compositional techniques instead brought it to the foreground, bringing with it emotional responses from the listeners.