Andrew MacDonald (12)

Andrew MacDonald (born Andrew Donald) (1757–1790), pen name Matthew Bramble, was a Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright A snatch of a ballad by MacDonald was quoted by Sir Walter Scott in chapter 11 of Waverley (1814). Two stanzas by the ingenious and unhappy Andrew MacDonald appear in chapter 21 of Scott's 1819 novel A Legend of Montrose; a German translation of the MacDonald verses provided Franz Schubert with the text for his song, "Lied Der Anne Lyle" (D830, 1825). Joseph Haydn made an arrangement of another MacDonald song, "By The Stream So Cool And Clear (St Kilda Song)" (Hob. XXXIa, 19).