Books in English
This section provides a useful although not exhaustive list of significant books in English on the history and aesthetics of German Lied and Art Songs, on poetry and poets, on composers and famous performers, etc.
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Editor and Translator | S. S. Prawer
Publisher | Penguin
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Editor | James Parsons
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 2004 | pp. 438 | ISBN 978-0521804714 | paperback |
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Title | The Songs of Johannes Brahms
Author | Eric Sams
Publisher | Yale University Press
Details: 2000 | pp. 376 | ISBN 978-0300079623 | hardcover |
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Author | Lorraine Gorrell
Publisher | Amadeus Press
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Title | The New Grove Schubert (New Grove Composer Biography )
Author | Maurice J.E. Brown with Eric Sams
Publisher | Macmillan
Details: 1982 | pp. 196 | ISBN 978-0333341957 | paperback |
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Title | The Songs of Hugo Wolf
Author | Eric Sams
Publisher | Faber & Faber
Details: 2008 | pp. 414 | ISBN 978-0571242191 | paperback |
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Author | Rufus Hallmark
Publisher | Routledge
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Author | John Reed
Publisher | Manchester University Press
Details: 1997 | pp. 524 | ISBN 978-1901341003 | paperback |
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Title | Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 2006 | pp. 216 | ISBN 978-0521027199 | paperback |
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Author | Jack Madison Stein
Publisher | Harvard University Press
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Title | Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song-Cycles
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 2006 | pp. 456 | ISBN 978-0521028752 | paperback |
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Author | Pierre Bernac
Publisher | Kahn & Averill
Details: 1998 | pp. 352 | ISBN 978-1871082630 | paperback |
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Author | Charles Osborne
Publisher | Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Details: 1974 | pp. 320 | ISBN 978-0575018259 | hardcover |
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Title | Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 1999 | pp. 404 | ISBN 978-0521778626 | paperback |
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Author | Pierre Bernac
Publisher | W W Norton & Co Inc.
Details: 1978 | ISBN 978-1871082630 | hardcover |
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Author | Fritz Noske
Publisher | Dover
Details: 1989 | pp. 454 | ISBN 978-0486255545 | paperback |
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Title | Retracing a Winter's Journey: Schubert's "Winterreise"
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cornell University Press
Details: 1991 | pp. 320 | ISBN 978-0801499661 | paperback |
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Author | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher | Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
Details: 1978 | pp. 240 | ISBN 978-0283984341 | hardcover |
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Author | Edward F. Kravitt
Publisher | Yale University Press
Details: 1996 | pp. 336 | ISBN 978-0300063653 | hardcover |
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Title | Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 2006 | pp. 264 | ISBN 978-0521028653 | paperback |
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Author | Michael Kennedy
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 206 | pp. 468 | ISBN 978-0521027748 | paperback |
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Title | The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder: Original Texts of 750 Songs in German
Author | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher | Limelight Edition
Details: 1999 | pp. 442 | ISBN 978-0879100049 | paperback |
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Title | Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin: Die Scheone Meullerin (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 1992 | pp. 132 | ISBN 978-0521422796 | paperback |
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Title | Heinrich Heine and the Lied
Author | Susan Youens
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Details: 2011 | pp. 410 | ISBN 978-0521293952 | paperback |
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Author | Gerald Moore
Publisher | Franklin Watts
Details: 1985 | pp. 244 | ISBN 978-0531097717 | hardcover |
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Title | The Songs of Robert Schumann
Author | Eric Sams
Publisher | Faber & Faber
Details: 2008 | pp. 308 | ISBN 978-0571242207 | paperback |
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Author | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publisher | Fromm Intl
Details: 1990 | ISBN 978-0880641227 | paperback |
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Author | Gerald Moore
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton
Details: 1962 | pp. 304 | ISBN 978-0241900192 | hardcover |
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Author | Gerald Moore
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton
Details: 1981 | pp. 256 | ISBN 978-0241105184 | hardcover |
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Author | Hans Hotter
Forewords | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Zubin Metha
Publisher | Northeastern University Press
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Author | Gerald Moore
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton
Details: 1978 | pp. 192 | ISBN 978-0241898178 | hardcover |
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Author | John C. Tibbetts
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation
Details: 2010 | pp. 500 | ISBN 978-1574671858 | hardcover |