On December 29, 1876 was born in Catalonia Pau Casals i Defilló (better known to the Castilian variant Pablo Casals, whom he openly rejected), one of the most celebrated cellists of Twentieth century.
After beginning his musical training with his father, organist (even though it had earmarked for a future as a carpenter) and in major conservatories in Spain, in 1895 he moved to Paris, where he was first cello in the orchestra and soloist Orchestra of the Concerts Lamoureux.
He dedicated himself with passion for chamber music, especially in the famous trio founded in 1919 with Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud. Casals was a bitter opponent of the Franco regime and any dictatorship, whether fascist or communist was. After the English Civil War took refuge in the French Pyrenees, in Prades, where in 1950 founded a Festival will become an important meeting place for musicians from all over the world.
Casals died in 1973. His name is linked to the Bach Suites, which was discovered accidentally at the age of thirteen years and stably introduced in the concert repertory a decade later. His recording of the suites, the first to be made, still remains a milestone. In this movie Casals performs the first suite in an ancient abbey French
But here we have an interesting fragment of a masterclass on the suites, which also shows his proverbial irony (the famous his line when, at ninety, still turned out to study three hours per day and "start seeing some improvement").
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