The first movement is marked "Moderato cantabile molto espressivo" ("at a moderate speed, in a singing style, very expressively"). Denis describes the first movement as in "orderly, predictable, sonata form", and Charles Rosen calls the movement's structure Haydnesque . Its opening is marked "con amabilità" ("amiably"). After a pause on the dominant seventh the opening is extended in a "cantabile" theme. This leads to a light arpeggiated demisemiquaver transition passage. The second group of themes in the dominant E includes appoggiatura figures, and a bass which descends in steps from E to G three times while the melody rises by a sixth. The exposition ends with a semiquaver cadential theme. Beethoven does not ask for the exposition to be repeated.