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