Heather Platt is Sursa Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts and professor of music at Ball State University. She is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide second edition, and coeditor of Expressive Interactions in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning.
"""A little-known aspect of the late nineteenth-century expansion of art music culture in the United States is the popularity of German lieder recitals. Heather Platt masterfully weaves a profound knowledge of the genre's roots in Europe with an exhaustive survey of US digital resources to tell this important story.""--E. Douglas Bomberger, author of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture"