Urs and Joram not sure about how you intend this excerpt to be "personal" etc. However in the past composers often indicated ideas through different ways - different groups of sixteen notes etc. to show phrasing, articulation etc. again i don't know the piece or the context so a rule of thumb is NEVER change the score. This was however quite common with (i speak of my own instrument) Chiesa, Segovia and others .. changing tempo markings allegretto became largetto adding slurs etc The current push since the 80's - and before, is to present the score as it actually was. Any ideas or changes (wrong notes etc) are noted in an annotation, a good example is the Telca Editions by Brian Jeffery. Never change the actual score. This being said there are situations where this is necessary like a performance for a group etc. Most modern scholars, universities, conservatories and performers wont even look at a score that does not represent itself as close as possible to the original.
Peter was absolutely correct. In fact composers such as Beethoven did this all the time eg. Sonata Op27/1/ii 136-140 (last measures) Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications By way of summary, it is fair to say that when successive measure-length or other unusual slurs occur in melodic or contrapuntal lines, the manner of performance may be more critical than when they occur in relatively straightforward accompaniment patterns. It should also have become clear that no editor may assume the prerogative of altering a composer's slurs. Such changes obscure the composer's perception of the music and remove the performer's opportunities for understanding and for choice where that may exist. pg. 183 HTH Stephen
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