DIVERTIMENTO, a term employed for various pieces of music.
In Mozart it designates a piece closely akin to a Serenade or Cassation, usually in 6 or 7 movements—though sometimes only 4, and once as many as 10; indifferently for trio or quartet of strings, wind alone, or wind and strings mixed. Köchel's Catalogue contains no less than 22 of such Divertimenti. The following is the order of the movements in one of them (no. 287):—(1) Allegro; (2)...