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, May 1:
- Matthias Claudius wrote Der Frühling. Am ersten Maimorgen in 1774.
- An die Nachtigall by Matthias Claudius was published in 1771.
- Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel died in 1809.
- Schubert set Goldner Schein (D 357) in 1816.
