At first glance, the Introduzioni appear to be lively three-movement works with a standardized order of movements and harmonic order: fast

slow

fast, major

minor

major. With regard to style, the short symphonies resemble the Neapolitan opera buffa, the descriptive title Introduzioni implying the function, the introduction to stage works.With his 6 Introduzioni teatrali, composed in 1735, the talented Italian violinist and composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli who had lived in Amsterdam...