After a year’s silence, I write to memorialize the following:

  • Every note that Rebecca Clarke wrote for performance and left in a performable state has now been published—admittedly, by six different publishers, but a Gesamtausgabe is a Gesamtausgabe, no matter how you slice it, and hello, Bach and Beethoven.
  • Every note that Clarke wrote for voices and left in a performable state has now been published and recorded.
  • Every note that Clarke wrote for instruments and left in a performable state has now been published, and virtually every bit of that has been recorded.
  • The remainder, consisting of a single counterpoint exercise and two fragments, is in the works.

Details may be seen here, here, and here. I rest my case.

Favorable cards from Clarke's tarot deck
Favorable cards from Clarke’s tarot deck (Ferd. Piatnik e Figli [Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne], Vienna, n.d.),
which she was given as a gift on 19 September 1928 and used to read Ravel’s fortune a month later—one of several experiences that ultimately led her to put away the cards for good, “as there were things I was simply not meant to know.”