Susan Youens
Encyclopedia
Susan Youens is the author of many respected books on German lieder. A noted 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.
As well as her books, she writes program notes for vocal recitals at Carnegie Hall
in New York City
. A native of Texas, she currently serves as a professor at the University of Notre Dame
, as well as being a frequent guest speaker.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
and Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
is considered some of the most scholarly and useful material on these composers. Both musicologists and performers have often cited her work.
As well as her books, she writes program notes for vocal recitals at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
in New York City
New York City
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. A native of Texas, she currently serves as a professor at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
, as well as being a frequent guest speaker.
Books
- Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles.
- Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs
- Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin
- Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder
- Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
- Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music
- Retracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise