Shortening the slurs so that they do not encompass the quavers ending the phrases in bars 418, 420, 422 and 424 is a part of far-reaching, arbitrary measures undertaken in GE3 aimed at unifying the slurring and other articulation markings in the figurational section of the development. In the discussed fragment, they also consisted in adding staccato dots to the pairs of semiquavers, opening the phrases, and in adding slurs in the L.H.
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