Kevin Sutton wrote:

>Aaron Rabushka wrote:
>
>>Actually one doesn't have to look very far in Beethoven's piano sonatas
>>to see idiomatic stock gestures (note the Alberti basses).
>
>Indeed! and how many times does he use the Da da da dummmm gesture in his
>works. In many more than just the fifth symphony.!

But with that and the Op 57 he pretty much got that pattern out of his
system.  He used it a lot until then, but not later.

Bill S