Macpherson, Ossian in bardski ideal: nekaj irskih misli o nemškem fenomenu

Despite the immense influence of James Macpherson’s Ossian poems on the formation of German romanticism (through the agency of Herder and Goethe), the extent to which Bardendichtung and an awareness of Scottish and Irish melodies existed independently in the German musical imagination has been insufficiently addressed. Notwithstanding Beethoven’s encounter with Irish traditional music, it was the ideal of “ folk music” – an imaginary construct – rather than the music itself which inspired the work of most German composers after Beethoven.Kljub velikemu vplivu zbirke Ossianovih pesmi Jamesa Macphersona na oblikovanje nemške romantike (preko del Herderja in Goetheja) doslej vprašanje, v kolikšni meri sta obstajali poezija bardov (nem. Bardendichtung) ter zavest o škotskih in irskih melodijah v nemški glasbeni misli neodvisno, še ni bilo dovolj obravnavano. Ne glede na Beethovnova srečanja z irsko tradicionalno glasbo je bolj kot sama glasba večino nemških skladateljev po Beethovnu navdihnil ideal »ljudske glasbe«