	Vivaldi's contemporaries and predecessors such as Purcell, Bach and Handel featured the flute (traverso and/or recorder) significantly in their works. RV 433 was conceived as a concerto for transverse flute in D. The first publication of the concerto, included as No. 1 in Vivaldi's Op. 10, "VI Concerti a Flauto Traverso", was around 1728 in Amsterdam, by Michel-Charles Le Cène. The "La tempesta di mare" name for the concerto is given in the score.