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Pau Casals
Pau Casals (El Vendrell, 1876 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1973) cellist, composer, and conductor, was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. After triumphing in Paris where he embarked on his soloist career with the conductor Charles Lamoureux, he played in the world’s greatest concert halls. In 1919 he founded the Pau Casals Orchestra in Barcelona and was its conductor until 1936. After Franco’s victory in the Civil War in 1939, he went into exile and France and, in 1965, to Puerto Rico where he continued his personal struggle for peace until his death.
