Heinrich von Morungen (died 1222)[1] was a Minnesinger, whose 35 surviving Middle High German songs are dated on both literary and biographical grounds to around the period 1190–1200.[2] Alongside Walter von der Vogelweide and Reinmar he is regarded as one of the most important Minnesänger:[3] he was "the most colourful, passionate, tender and musical of the Minnesänger"[4] and his work "marks a new and brilliantly effective stage in the development of the German lyric."[5]