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, February 9:
- Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty wrote Minnelied in 1773.
- Karl Gottfried Theodor Winkler was born in 1775.
- Johann Diederich Gries died in 1842.
