ABSTRACT
In 1835, the Edinburgh Musical Association was formed, and 'in addition to these professional concerts there were dozens of others run by entrepreneurs or societies.' In Edinburgh, during the 1830s, the productions at the Caledonian Theatre and the Theatre Royal included Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Weber's Der Freishutz, and Bellini's La sonnambula. Frederic Chopin found Edinburgh a 'most handsome town', and was intrigued to hear, as he passed a music shop, a blind man playing one of his mazurkas. The two 'kind Scots ladies', who had taken care of Chopin in Paris, would now be devoted to his welfare in Scotland. Mrs Lyschinska told Niecks that 'Chopin was gallant to all ladies alike, but thinks that he had no heart. Chopin kept up his connections with Dr Lyschinski even after he had left Scotland for London.
