Pau Casals

Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)

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Pau Casals was a Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer who lived from 1876 to 1973 and became one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He is remembered for revolutionizing how the cello was played and performed, and for using his music as a platform for social and political causes throughout his long life.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 27

Top works

Hymn to the United Nations - O vos Omnes
Hymn to the United Nations - O vos Omnes
Sonata
Sonata
Violoncel i Piano Vol. I

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Spain
Active from: 1876
Active to: 1973

cellistcellocomposerspanish cellist

Discography

El Pessebre (Oratori per a veus solistes, cor i orquestra sobre el poema de Joan Alavedra)1974
A Concert at the White House1991
Sacred Choral Music1991
Early Recordings 1925-19281994
Encores1994
Pablo Casals à Prades1996
El Pessebre1997
The Legendary Casals1999
Pablo Casals im Bonner Beethoven-Haus2001
Hall of Fame2002

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 15,611
Total plays: 72,747

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,764x
UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 6,036x
Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease
· 2013 · cited 4,126x
The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine
· 2020 · cited 3,362x
Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing
· 2019 · cited 2,859x

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Quotes

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”
“I have not played the cello in front of an audience since long years but I think I must do it this time. I am going to play a melody from the Catalonian folklore: The singing of the Birds. Birds, when in the sky, go singing: Peace, peace, peace. And this is a melody that Bach, Beethoven and all great people would have admired and loved. And, in addition, it springs up from the soul of my country: Catalonia.”

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Works in European collections

7 objects attributed to Pau Casals, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Seven variations on an aria from the opera “Die Siflöte”: Variation No. 5 and No. 6/(Mozart; Beethoven)

Seven variations on an aria from the opera “Die Siflöte”: Variation No. 1 and No. 2/(Mozart; Beethoven)

Seven variations on an aria from the opera “Die Siflöte”: Variation No. 3 and No. 4/(Mozart; Beethoven)

Seven variations on an aria from the opera “Die Siflöte”: Variation No. 7/(Mozart; Beethoven)

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Encyclopedic overview

Fritz Kreisler, Harold Bauer, Walter Damrosch and Casals, at Carnegie Hall on 13 March 1917 Pablo Casals (29 December 1876 – 22 October 1973), also known by his birth name, Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: [ˈpaw kəˈzalz i ðəfiˈʎo]), was a Catalan cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings he made of the Cello Suites by Bach.

Casals had an international career and traveled and performed widely. With the fall of Republican Spain to the Nationalist forces of Francisco Franco in 1939, Casals went into self-exile, refusing to return to Spain until democracy was restored. He lived in Prades, France from 1939 to 1956, and then in Ceiba, Puerto Rico from 1956 until his death in 1973.

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