The slur in A is written very firmly, yet its endings are not clearly combined with any particular notes, which leaves room for various interpretations, from 
to 
. If the slur had been written before the last crotchet in bar 203 was corrected – the erased crotchet was placed more to the left and had a stem pointing upwards – it was undoubtedly the crotchet that marked its beginning. We assume that it was so, and we interpret the ending of the bar quasi-literally as a slur-tenuto to the end of the bar. We also allow an alternative interpretation of this slur as ending in bar 205.
It seems that GE (→FE→EE) adopted the second of the possibilities illustrated above, writing it, however, in the form of three overlapping slurs – this unnecessarily complicated notation may be explained by the addition of slurs, as a proofreading of the original incomplete notation.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccurate slurs in A
notation: Slurs