Dear Folks, as many of you have already been playing the Widor Toccata for some time I am hoping to call on your expertise and knowledge of the performance background of this organ piece, in particular the articulation discussed below.

I had learned this piece under the guidance that the slurs that occur on the first two notes of each beat in the right hand and noted through measure three, ended where it is then noted "siempre staccato," measure four, and which I have assumed meant the slurs ended in measure four, and thereafter staccato to the end.

However, a 2005 article in the AGO magazine pointed that that in later copies of Widor's scores, these slurs up through measure three were actually meant to continue to the end ... the theory goes in this article that it would have been very costly to have the entire score re-typeset (engraved) in Widor's time to reflect the slurs throughout, so it was just noted in the first three measures and assumed to continue to the end.

I am open to your wisdom and knowledge ... if this is a reliable assumption, i.e., slurs to the end ... then I'll need to do a little woodshedding to correct, and perhaps this already a long-held assumption. However, if not, I a very curious to hear your comments and knowledge.

Thank you.