Researchers believe this epithet comes from the motive in the third movement's Allegretto in the central section, a local dance that already had appeared as a musette-imitating tune in a symphony by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

The piece is in three movements: The Allegro is in sonata form, opening with a G major theme played by the orchestra.

The main theme is a bright and happy discussion between the solo violin and the accompaniment, followed by a modulation to the dominant D major, then to its parallel key D minor.

It experiments in other keys, but does not settle and eventually, heads back to the tonic, G major, in the recapitulation.

The violin restates the main theme in A major, although the melody features A sharp instead of A natural, creating a brief modulation to B minor.