John Halliday explores the first Edinburgh music festival in 1815 and explains his Felix Yaniewicz, a Polish-Lithuanian emigré, played an instrumental role in founding the festival.
This event accompanies the exhibition Music & Migration in Georgian Edinburgh: The Story of Felix Yaniewicz which runs until October at The Georgian House.
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