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