Susan Youens Explained

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.[1]

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.[2] [3]

Her awards include the IRC Harrison Medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dame . Marketing Communications: Web University of Notre . Susan Youens . 2024-08-29 . Department of Music . en.
  2. Two early allusions to Celestina, Charlotte Stern, 09 Jan 2021, Vol. 12, Iss: 2, pp 61-64
  3. Susan Youens, Heinrich Heine and the Lied (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
  4. Web site: Irish Research Council - Harrison Medal | Society for Musicology in Ireland . musicologyireland.com . 14 April 2020.