The Lyrics Meaning of "Riding on Singing Wings"

The art song "Riding on Singing Wings" was written on 1836. At that time, Mendelssohn conducted in Dü sseldorf, and completed six songs of Op. 34, among which the second one, Riding on Singing Wings, was the most popular one among his solo songs. The lyrics of this song are a lyric poem by Heine. The whole song, accompanied by clear melody and broken chords, depicts a warm and romantic picture-riding the wings of singing, going to the Henghe River with the beloved, listening to the murmur of the sacred river in the distance on a quiet moonlit night full of red flowers, Yu Lian, roses and violets, enjoying the joy of love in the coconut grove, and looking forward to the happy dreams ... The interval of jumping down that appears from time to time in the song.