This is the only symphony where Haydn opens in fast 6/8 time without a slow introduction.

The first movement is in modified sonata form, with a substantially slow introduction.

So plunging right into the slow introduction that follows "seemed like a good idea," she said.

The first opens with a slow and serious introduction.

The piece begins with a slow introduction in the dominant key of A major.

It is the only one of the London symphonies that does not begin with a slow introduction to the first movement.

This is the first Schubert symphony which does not begin with a slow introduction.

It was based on the form of the classical sonatina, with a slow introduction.

The symphony is the only one of Bruckner's nine that begins with a slow introduction.

Some commentators have found hints of the blues in the slow introduction to the first movement.