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Tantalizingly, many of Pasquali’s compositions, especially the large-scale vocal ones, survive only in the form of extracted individual movements, but his debut publication, a set of six technically challenging violin sonatas, and also a posthumously published set of twelve concerto-like sonatas for orchestral strings, are preserved complete. Particular strengths of these works for strings are their contrapuntal dexterity, command of form, harmonic richness, extremely subtle and sometimes innovative ornamentation and articulation and, above all, effective marriage of Corellian and Neapolitan (galant) stylistic features, with frequent nods towards the musical idioms of his adopted homes.
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Music example: Sonata 4 (pdf)