Divertissement: trois pièces bourgeoises (1983)
(Also known as: String Quartet No. 1 (string orchestra arrangement))

Divertissement is an arrangement for string orchestra of Koehne’s first string quartet. The orchestral colour palette is, by necessity, more limited, and it is somewhat unusual to find that the outer movements are slow. The original quartet is an early work, when he was finding his way towards his eventual style and away from that of his teacher Richard Meale, a student of Boulez. It is more restrained than the other works, though not austere.