I was pleased to see Coleridge-Taylor's name mentioned in this discussion, along with Joseph Boulogne's. To those might be added Joseph (Jose) White (on IMSLP, the dance numbers for violin and piano use a pretty basic vocabulary, but the etudes are …
Since Mike Rogers mentioned beethovens First Symphony, which begins
with a secondary dominant, I'll add his Promethius Overture, which begins
with V4/2 of IV, and his "Pastorale" Sonata, op. 28, which begins with V7/IV.
For a phrase beginning on V7,…
One comes immediately to mind: Chopin's C-minor Prelude, second measure.
Straight-forward, perhaps to the point of being trivial. I'll keep my mental
ear open for other examples.