Pablo Casals, Spanish-Catalan Cellist

Pau Casals i Defill? (1876-1973) known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Catalan-Spanish cellist. Casals was a child prodigy who had a long and successful career as a musician, conductor and composer. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939. He left Spain and settled in France after the Spanish Civil War because he strongly opposed Franco's regime. Casals died in 1973 at the age of 96 and was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery. He did not live to see the end of the Franco dictatorial regime, but he was posthumously honored by the Spanish government under King Juan Carlos I. In 1979 his remains were laid to rest in his hometown of El Vendrell, Catalonia

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