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Riding on Singing Wings is the most popular solo song by Mendelssohn. The lyrics of this song are a lyric poem by Heine. Heine's poems and Mendelssohn's music are a perfect match!
Mendelssohn is one of the most representative figures of the German romantic music school, and is known as the outstanding "lyrical landscape painting master" of romanticism. Mendelssohn 1809 was born in Hamburg, Germany in February. He is a composer, pianist, organist and conductor. /kloc-started writing at the age of 0/2, and/kloc-completed the prelude to A Midsummer Night's Dream at the age of 0/7. He began to study and arrange Bach's works at the age of 2 1, which made the most important contribution to the revival of the father of music. At the age of 27, he was a conductor in Leipzig. 1843 founded the first German Conservatory of Music and died at the age of 38. In his short life, he created a large number of music works of various genres. His works are gentle and comfortable, beautiful and quiet, complete and rigorous, with few contradictions and conflicts, full of poetic fantasies, reflecting the stability and prosperity in his life. His symphonies "Scotsman", "Italian", overture "Finger Hole", "Calm Sea and Happy Sailing" and "Violin Concerto in E minor" are all masterpieces.
Mendelssohn is the most perfect master of music form after Mozart. The perfect combination of classical tradition and romantic interest in his works gives people a poetic elegance. He is good at bringing beautiful melodies into formal classical forms. He is not only a poet who enthusiastically praises nature, but also a landscape painter who is good at using illusory brushes. His music is called "descriptive romanticism".
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 of his solo songs. The lyrics of this song are a lyric poem by Heine. The whole song depicts a warm and romantic picture with clear melody and soft broken chord accompaniment.
Heinrich heine, a famous German lyric poet and essayist, is the most important poet in Germany after Goethe and is called "the last representative of German classical literature". 1797 12 13 was born in a Jewish family in Dü sseldorf-on-Rhine, Germany. Childhood and adolescence experienced the Napoleonic Wars. I studied finance and law. 1795, Napoleon's army marched into the Rhine valley and carried out some democratic reforms on the feudal system in Germany. As Engels pointed out, Napoleon was "the representative of the German revolution, the disseminator of revolutionary principles and the destroyer of the old feudal society". These reforms of the French army comprehensively improved the social status of the discriminated Jews, so Heine was influenced by the French bourgeois revolutionary thought since childhood.
Heine's early creation is mainly lyric poetry "Song Collection". The composer wrote more than 3000 songs for Heine's poems, but only 1700 for Goethe's poems. By 1887, there were as many as 2,500 solo songs created by Heine's poems. It can be seen that Heine's poems are well-known and refined.
Heine's "Riding on Singing Wings" was written around 1822, expressing the poet's beautiful yearning for love. The poet spread his imagination wings and imagined the charming scenery of the Ganges Yuan Ye, as if he could smell the fragrance of violets, roses and Bai Lianhua. Seeing clear water waves, green palms, gardens in the moonlight, kind antelopes and beloved people ... all these are integrated into songs and dreams, bringing people to the quiet, pure and poetic East. Charming exoticism is like a gentle mist, flowing in this magical world created by the poet. The tone of the whole poem is delicate, as if afraid that too much coloring will destroy the warm and sweet atmosphere in this harmony. The poet deliberately painted this quiet world with a touch of almost "watercolor" pen and ink. This elegant and quiet artistic conception reveals the sweetness of longing, is full of the poet's love, personifies lotus flowers and violets, and adds a lot of aura to this poem. Romantic poets often pursue the spiritualization of nature, which can be said to be perfectly reflected here. This beautiful, elegant, fresh and lively artistic conception is the main feature of Heine's poems, especially love poems.
Lyrics of On Singing Wings
On Wings of Song
Dear people, please follow me.
To the edge of the Ganges.
The most beautiful place in the world.
A courtyard full of red flowers
Rendered by the quiet moon
Yu Lian waited quietly.
The arrival of his beloved girl
Violet whispered with a smile.
Look up at the stars in the sky
Roses speak quietly.
Her fragrant fairy tales
A docile and lovely antelope
Stop and listen carefully.
The sacred river in the distance remains unchanged.
Holy waves surge.
I want to lie flat with you
In the shade of coconut grove
Taste the peace of love.
Fall into this sacred dream
The lyrics of this song "Riding on Singing Wings" are fresh and natural, poetic and imaginative, full of closeness to nature and eulogizing, and the melody is extremely beautiful and harmonious. Let's fly on the wings of spring singing.