| In the Classical period, when Mozart was composing, it would be known as a divertimento, a lighthearted work, intended to entertain. |
| I also found solace and beauty in the ethereally light Divertimento in B flat, a work which was not previously available in the Toscanini discography. |
| Some time after midnight we felt that we had had enough of divertimento. |
| Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet. |
| From his very earliest works in this genre, which belong to the lighter class of the ensemble divertimento, the composer's stupendous control of instrumental dialogue and formal equilibrium was already a distinctive feature. |
| I chose the title of divertimento for the second movement of my Suite, because it was the first which occurred to me. |
