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, June 16:
- Karl Ludwig Methusalem Müller was born in 1771.
- Schubert set Die Nonne (D 212) in 1815.
- Schubert set Beitrag zur fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier des Herrn von Salieri, ersten k. k. Hofkappelmeister in Wien, von seinem Schüler Franz Schubert (D 407) in 1816.
