The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive

Welcome! The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive is a collection of texts used in 98,624 Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces.

The archive indexes 61,799 texts with 12,564 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and others. The website has frequent updates.

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Dear visitors,
This project is not funded. I work on it in my spare time. The REC Music Foundation has generously given me server-space, but I have many costs in maintaining and expanding the website. So if you find the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your gift is greatly appreciated!
     - Emily
I also have a wishlist at Amazon.ca.

Where to start?

The Introduction is a good place, or the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

You can also browse the collection by using the indexes by composer, text poet or author, first line, title, or language; or you can search for words or phrases. If you can't find what you're looking for, please feel free to make a request for the wishlist.

The following links to selected song texts will give you an idea of the type of information this website has to offer.

Be sure to read this note about how to tell when a text shown is the sung text or the published stand-alone text or both.

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