From Leopold Mozart’s teaching and promotion of his son’s early career to the later compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the ...

“FOR me, as for thousands of others, his existence is a source of joy.” So Thomas Mann once wrote in a tribute to the cellist Pablo Casals. This was in 1954, when Casals was seventy-seven. Probably no ...

‘An analytical chapter starts with guides to the various dance-movement styles that are among the best I’ve read’ Bach’s six Suites for Solo Cello stand for greatness on two counts. Not only are they ...

Almost every morning at 8, a tubby little old man in baggy pants, a wool shirt and a brown pullover sweater emerges from the concierge’s cottage of the Chateau Valrac in the sleepy little ...

While at his workshop in Puerto Rico, Pablo Casals prepares to conduct a Bach suite for a concert performance. Oscar Winner for the category "Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects". Preserved by ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Catalonia, Pau Casals was the ...

I am wandering inside a used sheet music store in Barcelona, Spain, on October 23, 1973. Yesterday, on the 22nd, Pablo Casals—a cellist, composer, and conductor—died at the age of 96 in Puerto Rico.

“If musicians have a special paradise, it will be like this,” remarked Japanese Cellist Ko Iwasaki as he gazed around a sunlit meadow. Pianist Rudolf Serkin was in animated conversation with Conductor ...

Perhaps it was more by chance than design that major works by Shostakovich, whose 50th anniversary of his death occurs this year, featured prominently two nights running as Renaud Capuçon’s Festival ...

WHEN I was in San Juan recently, I took a taxi out to the Santurce district, where Pablo Casals lives in a house by the sea, to talk with him and see how he is getting on. He is now ninety-two years ...