A month after his first failed attempt at setting Ludwig Korner's Liebesrausch (Love's Intoxication) (D. 164), Schubert returned to Korner's ardent poem on April 8, 1815, and this time finished Liebesrausch II (D. 179) as well as a setting of Korner's Sehnsucht der Liebe (Love's Yearning) (D. 180) in one day. Korner's Liebesrausch is very much a young man's poem and Schubert set it to young man's music: a tremulously passionate vocal line soaring over throbbing triplets in the piano accompaniment with plenty of tortured modulations to spur the song melody onwards and upwards. Although a strophic song, each of Korner's three verses are sufficiently like each other in emotions and imagery that Schubert's music fits each perfectly.

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