On Wings Of Song
by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Sheet Music

Item Number: 21264997
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Instruments
Voice Solo
High Voice
Piano Accompaniment
Genres
Romantic Period
Classical
Usages
School and Community
High Voice and Piano - Grade 3

SKU: BT.MUSPAT18210

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by F. H. Bisset. Classical. Book Only. Composed 2006. 4 pages. Paterson Ltd. #MUSPAT18210. Published by Paterson Ltd. (BT.MUSPAT18210).

English.

In 1834, Mendelssohn set the poem Auf Flugeln des Gesanges by Heinrich Heine and published it as the second of his Six Songs for Voice and Piano. It achieved a popularity that has lasted through the present and has been arranged for many instrument combinations. On Wings of Song is has the typical form of an early Mendelssohn lied, in strophic form with a transformation in the final verse. The rippling accompaniment suggests the flowing Ganges, to which the lovers fly 'on wings of song'.