PAU CASALS TIMELINE

By CHICO DEL ROBLOX

  • 1876

    1876
    Pau Casals was born

  • 1885

    1885
    His father and a friend build him the pumpkin, considered
    his first cello.

  • 1888

    1888
    He began his studies at the Barcelona Municipal School of Music

  • 1889

    1889
    He starts playing in public at Cafè Tost in Barcelona.

  • 1890

    1890
    Discover the suites of Johan Sebastian Bach.

  • 1893

    1893
    Queen Maria Cristina grants him a scholarship and he begins his studies at the Real Conservatory of Music in Madrid.

  • 1895

    1895
    Travel to Brussels and Paris. Renunciation of the scholarship of Queen Maria Cristina

  • 1896

    1896
    He returns to Barcelona, ​​where he joins as a teacher at the Municipal School
    of Music and the Liceu Conservatory.

  • 1899

    1899
    Debuts in Paris with the Lamoureux Orchestra.

  • 1901-1905

    1901-1905
    5 Five years of international tours consolidate him as the best cellist of the moment In 1905 he began to live with the cellist Guilhermina Suggia.

  • 1906

    1906
    6 Debut of the trio Cortot-Thibaud-Casals

  • 1910

    1910
    Debuts in Vienna at the Grand Hall of the Musikverein.

  • 1914

    1914
    He marries the soprano Susan Metcalfe and they settle in New Rochelle, New York.

  • 1915

    1915
    First recordings for the Columbia Gramophone Company.

  • 1919

    1919
    He refuses to touch Russia until democratic principles are established there

  • 1920

    1920
    On his return to Barcelona, ​​he creates the Pau Casals Orchestra.

  • 1926

    1926
    Creates the Concert Workers Association.

  • 1933

    1933
    He refuses to touch Germany until freedom is restored there

  • 1936

    1936
    He does charity concerts for the victims of the Civil War. Start recordings
    from the Six Suites for Cello by J.S. Bach.

  • 1938

    1938
    Last concert in Barcelona for the benefit of the Children's Aid Society.

  • 1939

    1939
    He goes into exile and settles in Prada de Conflent, France, with Francesca Capdevila.
    He started helping Catalan and Spanish refugees and gave charity concerts for France
    not busy

  • 1946

    1946
    He decides not to play publicly while the victorious democratic countries of the Second World War did not change their attitude towards Franco's government.

  • 1950

    1950
    First Prada Festival

  • 1955

    1955
    He makes his first trip to his mother's homeland, Puerto Rico.

  • 1957

    1957
    First Casals Festival in San Juan de Puerto Rico. He marries Marta Montañez and establishes residence in Puerto Rico

  • 1958

    1958
    Concert and speech in favor of world peace at the United Nations.

  • 1960

    1960
    Premiere of the oratorio El Pessebre in Acapulco, Mexico.

  • 1961

    1961
    Concert at the White House, invited by the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy

  • 1962

    1962
    He begins his personal crusade for peace that leads him to direct the oratory
    The Nativity around the world.

  • 1963

    John F. Kennedy awards him the Medal of Freedom.

  • 1971

    Last concert at the United Nations, where he is awarded the Peace Medal.

  • 1973

    He died in San Juan de Puerto Rico on October 22

  • 1979

    Return of his remains to his native town, Vendrell, on November 10.