Both the ending of the slur in bar 450 and the beginning of a new one in bar 452 fall on musically unjustified places. That gives rise to the suspicion that the notation could be inaccurate or even erroneous. A possible cause of that inaccuracy is indicated by the correlation between the slurs and the octave sign – the first slur ends where the octave sign begins in the sources, while the second slur begins just when the octave sign ends. A similar situation occurs in the autograph of the Etude in E
major, op. 10 no. 11, bars 40-42; therefore, it may be the composer himself that is responsible for the inaccurate slurs. In the main text, we extend the slurs so that they encompass all semiquavers; moreover, in bar 452, we suggest beginning a new slur due to the beginning of a four-bar section.
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issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Inaccurate slurs in A, Errors in GE
notation: Slurs
