Divertimento in D major, K. 136

One of three works for strings, K. 136–138, that Mozart wrote in Salzburg early in 1772, at sixteen, shortly before his third journey to Italy. The autograph is headed Divertimento, but there are no minuets and only three movements, so the pieces have long been suspected of being intended as symphonies — possibly to be fitted with wind parts in Milan — and they are still often billed as the Salzburg Symphonies. They are played both by string quartet and by string orchestra; nothing in the sources settles which Mozart had in mind.