Divertimento for Flute and Orchestra in B-flat major, op. 52

Busoni wrote the Divertimento in May 1920, four years before his death and while the unfinished Doktor Faust occupied him. He planned it as one half of a diptych with the Concertino for clarinet of 1918, and thought it the more fantastic, more masculine and shorter of the two; the music, he said, came to him as easily as writing a letter, and the score was done on 24 May. It runs about nine minutes in three contrasting sections, with a Mozartian brilliance in the solo part. The dedicatee was the flautist Philippe Gaubert.