After being celebrated in London on his first great journey, Joseph Haydn returned to Vienna with a lot of new impressions. Especially the powerful and rich English piano sound seemed to appeal to him. Therefore the new composed Andante in F minor, which clearly surpasses the framework of lust and drama that Haydn used up to then. The same can be said for the so-called English sonatas, the last piano works that he composed in 1794 during the second London trip.