Divertimento di danza

Harald Genzmer’s composition "Divertimento di danza" for string orchestra clearly continues the baroque form of the divertimento. This "light" music - in the truest sense of the word - consisted of a sequence of loose movements with free forms and dance movements alternat-ing in varied succession. The divertimento comprised five to six movements. Genzmer kept to all these facts but he brought new life into the old forms. Though he did not compose "in the old style", he respected certain rules of the traditional form.