Our alternative suggestion is justified by a comparison with analogous bar 162. The eight-bar section starting in bar 152 is repeated from bar 160, with small changes. The differences in the pitch and rhythm are unquestionable; however, some of the differences between the performance markings just seem to present different aspects of the same performance:
- the accents given in bars 152-153 are almost certainly to be included also in bars 160-161. The same applies to the staccato dots at the beginning of bars 156-158 that most probably are also valid in bars 164-166;
- there is no reason to dynamically differentiate between bars 154 and 162, which are preceded by
in both phrases (2 bars earlier) and followed by 
.
In spite of that, in the discussed bar we preserve the source version, since an inconclusive notation (without ) leaves the performer with more freedom in shaping the dynamics of this transitional bar.
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