Lexicographical Neighbors of Divertimentos
Literary usage of Divertimentos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1825)
"Books I and 2, of Cottage divertimentos for the Piano Forte ; by PA Corri.
Chappell and Co. Three Sets of Pandean Airs for the Piano Forte ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"MOZART wrote :—Ten pieces for 2 flutes, 3 trumpets in C, 2 trumpets in D, and
four kettledrums—C, G, D and A; two divertimentos for similar instruments ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"MOZART wrote :—Ten pieces for 1 flutes, 3 trumpets in C, 2 trumpets in D, and
four kettledrums—C, G, D and A ; two divertimentos for similar instruments ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"MOZART wrote Ten pieces for 2 flutes, 3 trumpets in C, 2 trumpets in D, and 4
kettledrums — C, G, D and A ; two divertimentos for similar instruments; ..."
5. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1818)
"The first nineteen quartetts, are considered by amateurs merely as divertimentos.
The originality and loftiness of his style is not yet fully developed in ..."
6. The Musical World (1877)
"As early as 1768, when but 14 years old, he composed for them a march ; in 1776
he wrote a second march and a divertimento ; in 1777 two divertimentos, ..."
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