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]

• 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.

• Notre Dame bio

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