Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Maynooth University. She has published eleven books including: Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues; The Unknown Schubert and Schubert’s Goethe Settings. Recent publications include Schubert’s Late Music: History, Theory, Style (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Rethinking Schubert (Oxford University Press, 2016), both co-edited with Julian Horton, and she has been commissioned by Yale University Press to write a new biography of Schubert. Recent awards include a DMUS in Musicology, a higher doctorate on published work (NUI, 2012); two DAAD Senior Academic Awards (2010 and 2014) and a Gerda-Henkel Foundation Scholarship (2014). In 2015 she was elected President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland and Member of The Royal Irish Academy.

Suzannah Clark is Professor of Music at Harvard University. Before joining Harvard in 2008, she was at Oxford University, first as a Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and then from 2000–2008 she taught there as a University Lecturer and Fellow of Merton College. She specializes in the history of music theory, the music of Franz Schubert, and thirteenth-century vernacular music. Her book Analyzing Schubert was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. During 2014–2015, she has been a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Robert Hatten is Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (1994) and Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (2004). His other research interests include music and emotion, performance and analysis, and virtual agency in music (the subject of a book in progress). ‘Schubert’s Alchemy: Transformative Surfaces, Transfiguring Depths’, is published in Schubert’s Late Music: History, Theory, Style, edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Dr Hatten is editor of the book series ‘Musical Meaning and Interpretation’ with Indiana University Press. He also is active as a poet, librettist and composer.

David Rees is conductor of the Munich Synagogue Choir. A graduate of Lawrence University (in music and classics) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (in Jewish history and German philosophy), he has researched and written on Gershom Scholem, cultural anthropology in the 1950s and sacred Jewish music in the nineteenth century. A freelance writer, he is currently co-authoring the biography of the ‘Wotan of the Century’, Sir Donald McIntyre.

Alon Schab is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (in composition and recorder performance), and he wrote his doctoral dissertation in Trinity College Dublin on the subject of ‘Compositional Technique in Purcell’s Early Instrumental Works’. He is a faculty member in the Department of Music in the University of Haifa and he also lectures in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. His research interests include music history 1550–1750, source studies and historically informed performance, analysis, music of Ashkenazi Jews in the nineteenth century and progressive rock.

James William Sobaskie is Associate Professor of Music at Mississippi State University. A member of Nineteenth-Century Music Review’s Editorial Board, he serves as the journal’s Book Reviews Editor. He is a member of Comité Scientifique of Œuvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré, and his critical edition of Fauré’s last two works, the Trio pour violon, violoncello et piano, Op. 120 (1923) and the Quatuor à cordes, Op. 121 (1924), inaugurated the 28-volume monument. His essay, ‘Contextual Processes in Schubert’s Late Sacred Music’, will appear in Rethinking Schubert, edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. At present he is completing a book, The Music of Gabriel Fauré: Style, Structure and the Art of Allusion.

Susan Youens is the J.W. Van Gorkom Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of eight books on German song, including Schubert, Müller, and Die schöne Müllerin; Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs; Schubert’s Late Lieder; and Heinrich Heine and the Lied (from Cambridge University Press), as well as over 50 scholarly articles. She is the recipient of four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as additional fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the National Humanities Center, and has lectured widely on the music of Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and other song composers.