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This piece tries to take a look at the numerous and diverse song writing of an important representative of Czech classical and early romantic music, Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850), through the prism of his artistic and aesthetic attitudes, while taking into account the question of style; it tries to introduce his song aesthetics in the context of wider development of this genre, i.e. the Second Berlin Song School, sometimes called the North German school, but also of the Swabian and Viennese song schools. The light is also shun on certain parallels between the artistic and aesthetic conception of a song by V. J. Tomášek and J. W. Goethe, especially with regard to their approach to turning poetry into music. Based on a probe into Tomáš’s creative work and aesthetic views in relation to the combination of poetry and music, it is clear that Tomášek, at least to some extent, reflected in his song writing both the stylistic stimuli of the Second Berlin Song School, which was closely linked to Goethe’s song aesthetics, as well as the suggestions of the Viennese and Swabian schools. Therefore, there remains the interesting question as to what extent his songs reflect these diverse stylistic influences and to what extent they were the product of his own song aesthetics, which builds on classically pure lines of composition and form, respect for the poetic original, the expression of which can make full use of all musical and compositional means, including elements such as tonal painting or stylistic progression indicating the aperiodicity of the melody, which Tomášek did not consider typical for his compositional style.