ABRSM 2023 & 2024 - Grade 5 Piano exam - A:2 Minuet and Trio ~ Joseph Haydnbr br Haydn composed more than 60 keyboard sonatas over a period of about 40 years. Many of them, like his symphonies, contain a minuet - a br stylised dance that he treated with great charm and elegance. Often, as in this case, the minuet is followed by a contrasting trio. The minuet then br returns to create an overall ABA structure.