Beth P. Chen is a pianist, recording artist, and performance practice researcher. She aims to investigate the implications of composers’ original intention for performance practice, and to combine the beauty of the sound of modern instruments with historically-informed performance. This article relates to her paper on “The Implications of the slur sign from Mozart to the first half of the 19th-century’s piano literature,” presented at the XIIIth International Congress on Musical Signification in 2016.