The serenata in the eighteenth century

Continuous Exposition in Mozart's Slow Chamber‐Music Movements

“…Unlike chamber music, however, serenades and divertimenti were often performed at public festivities. Stefanie Tcharos notes the difficulty in locating serenades and divertimenti along the public‐private axis, in that they are placed ‘at the interstices of events that were grand, public and quasi‐theatrical or those that were non‐occasional, exclusive and more intimate in performance’ (2009, p. 497). Such an interstice is exemplified by Mozart's C minor String Quintet, K. 406 (1787/88), which is an arrangement of the Wind Serenade K. 388 (1782).…”