Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination

by James Porter and James Porter

Book Overview

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others.

Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648250343
• ISBN13: 9781648250347
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"