Divertimento
A divertimento ( Italian : pleasure , plural: divertimenti) is a multi-movement instrumental piece. This usually has an entertaining, cheerful to dance-like character and is played in different line-ups as "table music" or "open air music". Until the end of the 18th century, the divertimento was widespread and popular in European courts. The Divertimento increases especially in the Viennese classics in the work of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as example is 138, the Divertimento in F major, K.) and their contemporaries a broad space one. The late E-flat major divertimento for string trio K. 563 by Mozart reveals the upgrading of the entertaining genre to a piece of demanding chamber music.
Completely out of fashion in the 19th century, it was picked up again in the 20th century by individual composers, such as Divertimento for string orchestra by Béla Bartók , Divertimento for small orchestra by Paul Graener or in the symphonic Divertimento for Orchestra by Leonard Bernstein .
Other uses of the term
In his collection of notes and short stories, Zettelkasten, published in 1994, Michael Ende published the Divertimento in PP , a ludicrous story about snippet folder sheds that is quite multi-sentence, entertaining and even musical.
literature
- Hubert Unverricht : Divertimento. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Magazin Klassik
- ↑ Peter Petersen : Divertimento versus Divertissement. Notes on Mozart's KV 563. In: International musicological congress for the Mozart year 1991 in Baden-Vienna. Schneider, Tutzing 1993, pp. 123-144.
- ↑ Michael Ende: Note box. Sketches and notes. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart 1994; Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26356-6 , pp. 100-102.