Alberti bass
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Alberti bass as used in the opening of Mozart's Sonata in C major, K.545.
| A conventional broken-chord accompaniment common in 18th-century keyboard music, taking its name from Domenico Alberti, who made much use of it. Many familiar examples of the device can be found in the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. |
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