Pietro Locatelli

Italy, 1711–1764

Italian violinist and composer (1695-1764) who settled in Amsterdam. L'arte del violino (1733) ends each concerto with a capriccio of deliberately impossible difficulty — the first music written to be harder than anyone could play, and the direct ancestor of Paganini's Caprices.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Pietro Locatelli and 1 artist Pietro Locatelli influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Pietro Locatelli influence?

• Niccolo Paganini — L'arte del violino is the book that showed a violinist could write past the limit of what was playable. Paganini's Caprices answer it directly.