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, August 9:
- Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner wrote Impromptu. In Tharand's Ruinen geschrieben in 1806.
- Die Sterne by Carl Gottfried von Leitner was published in 1823.
- Christoph Christian Hohlfeldt was born in 1776.
- Christian Wilhelm von Schütz died in 1847.
- Eduard von Bauernfeld died in 1890.
