Welcome to Schubert Song Texts, a web resource devoted to the poems set to music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). As well as the full text of all the poems, there are translations into modern English and indexes of the images used by the poets. A sample of what is available is offered below, but for more detail see the About page, which includes a FAQ and a video tour.
On this day, April 5:
- Phidile by Matthias Claudius was published in 1770.
- Todesmusik by Franz Adolph Friedrich von Schober was published in 1823.
- Franz von Bruchmann was born in 1798.
- Ignaz Felner died in 1825.
- Schubert set Der Taucher (D 77) in 1814.
- Schubert set Cantate zur Feier der Genesung Irene Kiesewetter (D 936) in 1827.
