Divertimentos, as their name implies, are intended for pleasure and entertainment, with light-hearted outer movements.
Arrangements of familiar opera melodies for two instruments were very popular during Mozart's time.
The familiar melody from Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467, is frequently identified as the 'Elvira Madigan' theme.
David Shifrin performs the Clarinet Concerto on a specially-built extended clarinet to play the music in its original version.
Mozart wrote the three Divertimentos for Strings when he was only 17 years old.
Anton Stadler, for whom Mozart wrote the Clarinet Concerto, played a clarinet with a range an octave lower than today's standard instrument.
Mozart's last completed work was the Clarinet Concerto, written for his friend, the clarinet virtuoso Anton Stadler.
