Publication and performance decisions for each of Clara Wieck/Schumann’s compositions—whether and in what form to make them public—involved the negotiation of myriad personal and social factors, her own artistic values and aims, career strategies, and considerations of reception in terms of both aesthetics and commercial viability. We see evidence in the differences between Wieck/Schumann’s autograph and published pieces, that the composer made significant changes to her compositions to prepare them for public consumption. Regardless of why they were kept private, analysis of Wieck/Schumann’s unpublished works uncovers her idiosyncrasy as a composer, held back in public iterations. In this lecture recital, Taflinger and Castro-Ramirez present some of Wieck/Schumann’s unpublished songs to showcase the musically daring compositional style the composer shared only with her inner circle.