Susan Youens
Susan Youens (born 1947) is the author of many books on German lieder. A musicologist, her work on Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf is considered some of the most scholarly and useful material on these composers. Both musicologists and performers have often cited her work.{{Cite web |last=Dame |first=Marketing Communications: Web {{!}} University of Notre |title=Susan Youens |url=https://music.nd.edu/people/susan-youens/ |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=Department of Music |language=en}}
As well as her books, she writes program notes for vocal recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York City. A native of Houston, Texas, she is a professor at the University of Notre Dame, as well as being a frequent guest speaker.
Her twin sister, Laura Youens-Wexler (1947–2019) was also a musicologist whose work was substantially about early Lutheran music. She was a professor emerita at George Washington University and a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.Two early allusions to Celestina, Charlotte Stern, 09 Jan 2021, Vol. 12, Iss: 2, pp 61-64Susan Youens, Heinrich Heine and the Lied (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Her awards include the IRC Harrison Medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.{{cite web |url=https://musicologyireland.com/irish-research-council-harrison-medal; |title=Irish Research Council - Harrison Medal | Society for Musicology in Ireland |website=musicologyireland.com |access-date=14 April 2020}}
Books
- Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 123 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521422796}}.
- Heinrich Heine and the Lied, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 378 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521823746}}.
- Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 203 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521027199}}.
- Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music, Princeton University Press, 1992. 384 pp. {{ISBN|978-0691091457}}.
- Retracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise, Cornell University Press, 1991. 331 pp. {{ISBN|978-0801499661}}.
- Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 245 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521028653}}.
- Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 436 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521028752}}.
- Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 384 pp. {{ISBN|978-0521778626}}.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071103112058/http://music.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/alphabetical-directory/youens-susan/index.shtml Notre Dame bio]
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