The poet Friedrich Rückert wrote his Liebesfrühling (Love’s Springtime) in 1821, when he himself was courting his future wife, Luise Wiethaus-Fischer. The complete collection of poems was first published in the Collected Poems of 1834, where the poet put them in five separate ‘garlands’, which, in a later, posthumous edition were increased to six in number.

From this most successful cycle of love poems of the Biedermeier period Robert Schumann had already set Du meine Seele, du mein Herz (Thou my soul, thou my heart) in 1840, publishing it in the collection Myrthen, Op. 25 under the title Widmung (Dedication), a wedding present for his bride Clara. A little later, in 1841, followed the setting of Twelve Poems from Rückert’s “Liebesfrühling”, partly composed by his wife Clara and partly by Robert Schumann himself, an artistic confirmation of a partnership still not overs