ABSTRACT
The title of the fth piece in the Original Edition looks rather strange, ending with an ‘r’ and thus spelled ‘contrapunctur’ rather than ‘contrapunctus’. This odd ending has always unanimously been interpreted as a simple misprint, and therefore corrected in practically all the work’s editions. Some publishers mark it as an engraver’s error while others correct it without any additional comment, regarding it as an obvious typo. We believe that this peculiarity calls for a deeper inquiry.
