Piano Concerto no. 2 in A flat major, H.31

John Field's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A♭ major (H. 31) was composed by 1811 and published in full first in Leipzig in 1816. It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast–slow–fast form:
Field wrote the piece in classical sonata form; however, he didn't include a cadenza at the end of the first movement due to its relative length, and made the second movement quite short. Field wrote the composition using the more lyric, subdued, slightly melancholy style typical of late Mozart, rather than the joyous "happy-go-lucky mood" of Haydn or the bombastic display of Beethoven.