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Pablo Casals Classical musician

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Spain
  • Born: Dec 29, 1876
  • Died: Oct 22, 1973

Pau Casals i Defilló, known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor. 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.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? patriotism

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. music

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. art