Transcript Pablo Casals

PABLO CASALS
Amanda Reese
BIRTH
 Pablo
Casals was born on December
29, 1876
 He was born in El Vendrell,
Catalonia, Spain.
 His birth mother, Pilar Defilló de
Casals, was born in Mayagüez,
Puerto Rico of Catalonian ancestry.
PABLO CASALS DURING
CHILDHOOD
PABLO CASALS’ FIRST
INSTRUMENTS
At age four, Pablo could play the violin, piano and
flute.
At age six, he played the violin. He played well
enough to perform a solo in public.
Pablo Casals’
first instruments
SCHOOL YEARS
In 1888 his mother took him to
Barcelona where he enrolled in the
Escola Municipal do Música. He made
prodigious progress as a cellist and on
February 23, 1891 he gave a solo recital
in Barcelona at the age of fourteen. He
graduated from the Escola with
honours five years later.
PABLO BECOMES
PRODIGY DURING SCHOOL YEARS
PLAYING THE CELLO
In 1893, the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz
heard him playing in a trio in a café and gave
him a letter of introduction to the private
secretary to María Cristina, the Queen Regent, in
Madrid, Spain.
 In 1895 he went to Paris, where, having lost his
stipend from Catalonia, he earned a living by
playing second cello in the theater orchestra of
the Folies Marigny
 In 1896, he returned to Catalonia and received
an appointment to the faculty of the Escola
Municipal de Música in Barcelona. He was also
appointed principal cellist in the orchestra of
Barcelona's opera house, the Liceu.

Pablo goes to Paris
to earn a living
playing the cello.
PLAYING AT THE WHITE HOUSE
On January 15, 1904, Casals was
invited to play at the White House. He
was invited to play for President
Theodore Roosevelt. On March 9 of
that year he made his debut at
Carnegie Hall in New York, playing
Richard Strauss's Don Quixote under
the baton of the composer.
Pablo plays for President
Theodore Roosevelt at the
White House.
MARRIAGE NUMBER 1
In 1914 Casals married the
American socialite and singer
Susan Metcalfe. They were
separated in 1928. Although they
weren’t officially divorced until
1957.
Pablo gets married for the
first time in 1914.
BECOMING FAMOUS
Although Casals made his first recordings in
1915, it would not be until 1926 that he again
released a recording.
Throughout most of his professional career, he
played on a cello that was labeled and
attributed to "Carlo Tononi ... 1733" but after
playing it for 50 years it was discovered to have
been created by the Venetian luthier, Matteo
Goffriller around 1700. It was acquired by
Casals in 1913. He also played another cello by
Goffriller dated 1710, and a Tononi of 1730.
Pablo Casals records
his first recordings in
1915.
MARRIAGE NUMBER 2
In 1952, Casals met Marta Montañez Martínez,
a young Puerto Rican student who had gone
to Spain to participate in the Festival. Casals
was very impressed with her and encouraged
her to return to Mannes College of Music in
New York to continue her studies.
On August 3, 1957, at 80, Casals married 20
year old Marta Montañez. They made their
permanent residence in the town of Ceiba,
and lived in a house called "El Pesebre“.
Pablo got married for
another time in 1957.
DEATH
Casals
died in 1973 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at
the age of 96.
He
was buried at the Puerto Rico National
Cemetery.
In
1979 his remains were laid to rest in his
hometown of El Vendrell, Catalonia.
Casals died in 1773.
SOURCES
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_C
asals
•http://www.biography.com/articles/P
ablo-Casals-9240446
•http://www.bachcantatas.com/Bio/Casals-Pablo.htm