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Susan Youens (born 1947) is the author of many books on German
lieder In Western classical music tradition, (, plural ; , plural , ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German, but among English and French sp ...
. A musicologist, her work on
Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
and
Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) 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 Ro ...
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
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in New York City. A native of
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, she is a professor at the
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, 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. Her awards include the IRC Harrison Medal of the
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Books

* ''Franz Schubert:'' Die schöne Müllerin,
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, 1992. 123 pp. . * ''Heinrich Heine and the Lied'',
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, 2007. 378 pp. . * ''Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs'',
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, 2000. 203 pp. . * ''Hugo Wolf: The Vocal Music'',
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, 1992. 384 pp. . * ''Retracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's'' Winterreise,
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, 1991. 331 pp. . * ''Schubert, Müller, and'' Die schöne Müllerin,
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, 1997. 245 pp. . * ''Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song Cycles'',
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, 2002. 436 pp. . * ''Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder'',
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, 1996. 384 pp. .


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