ABSTRACT
This chapter presents two songs to poems by Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze, published by J. A. Kienreich of Graz, 30 May 1828. The songs are Im Walde and Auf der Brucke. The ten Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze poems Franz Schubert set in 1825 and 1826 all come from Poetisches Tagebuch, a collection of 100 poems recording the poet's obsessive but unrequited love for Adelheid Tychsen between 1813 and his death at the age of 28 in 1817. However, Schubert alteration of Auf der Brucke's final stanza, so that it ends with 'sweet presentiments' rather than with thoughts about love being deceived, seems to suggest that the possibility had occurred to him. In Auf der Brucke, he deceives himself into believing that the obstacles to his love will be overcome, that the dark night he is going through will end, and that like the migrating birds he will soon find warmer pastures.
