Anton Schindler
The second movement is minuet-like; the main section ends on the tonic major chord. The first time, this leads without intermediate modulation to the trio, headed "Maggiore", in C; after its return, the coda briefly quotes the C major tune before returning to E minor. Anton Schindler recalled that Beethoven would play the E-minor section furiously, before pausing at length on the E-major chord and giving a calmer account of the Maggiore.