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Divertimento

Divertimento meaning

composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

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It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as commedia in musica, commedia per musica, dramma bernesco, dramma comico, divertimento giocoso.

This is the 2nd movement of his Divertimento in E-flat major - KV 113. The "normal" orchestra ensemble—a body of strings supplemented by winds—and movements of particular rhythmic character were established by the late 1750s in Vienna.