Only five of Mendelssohn’s 36 Songs Without Words received titles from the composer. Mendelssohn hesitated to attach a title to these piano miniatures because he found words ” … so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.” However, the title of Op.62, No.6, ‘Spring Song’, is directly attributable to Mendelssohn. 

This piece comes from the fifth set of Songs Without Words and was published in 1844 in Bonn. The six pieces were composed over about a two-year period and there are a variety of song types. The melody of No.6, features a rising and falling line peppered with occasional chromatic passages. Constant arpeggios provide an accompaniment with a delicate, harp-like sound that continues from beginning to end.