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The young girl in the painting is Georgina Gregory who lived in Ainslie Place, part of the New Town in Edinburgh, around the 1840s. She studied guitar with Felix Horetski, a famous classical guitar performer-composer who once was duet partner in Vienna to the legendary Mauro Giuliani. Horetski toured Europe as a leading performer, eventually settling in Scotland Street, Edinburgh for twenty years. Luckily we have a manuscript kept by Georgina Gregory of her lessons with Horetski - a mixture of pieces by various 19th-century guitar composers, including Giuliani and Horetski, as well as arrangements of Scots tunes popular at the time.
So, classical guitar lessons in Edinburgh go back a long way...
I studied classical guitar at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and have recorded a CD of many of the pieces from the Georgina Gregory manuscript on an original guitar from the period. I am happy to teach complete beginners as well as advanced students.
Email me to discuss taking lessons (robmackillop@gmail.com) or phone 0131 343 2195
For post-beginner players, see my website www.SorStudies.co.uk
Another Scottish guitar student. This is how I expect you
to dress for your lessons. Ladies too!
Sonatas of the Scottish
Enlightenment for
classical guitar, by Rob MacKillop
Rob playing an original 6-course guitar, c.1800, by Pages
Rob MacKillop, www.guitarlessonsedinburgh.com