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Pablo Casals
Regarded as one of the world's greatest cello players, Pablo Casals was inspired
by the music of Bach and Beethoven to become a master virtuoso and had a long,
extraordinary career bookended by recitals for Queen Victoria when he was 23 and
a performance at the White House for President John F. Kennedy at 85.
Born in the small wine making coastal town of El Vendrell in Spain, his strict
father was a choir leader at the local parish and taught Casals piano and violin
as a child, but he fell in love with the cello after hearing a travelling string
quartet. He studied at the Esco...
