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- 1876-1973. Catalan cellist, composer, and
- conductor. As a cellist, he was celebrated
- for his interpretations of J S Bach's
- unaccompanied suites. He left Spain in 1939
- to live in Prades, in the French Pyrenees,
- where he founded an annual music festival. He
- wrote instrumental and choral works,
- including the Christmas oratorio The Manger.
- In 1919 Casals founded the Barcelona
- orchestra, which he conducted until leaving
- Spain at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil
- War in 1936. He was an outspoken critic of
- fascism, and a tireless crusader for peace.
- In 1956 he moved to Puerto Rico where he
- launched the Casals Festival 1957 and toured
- extensively in the USA. He married three
- times; his first wife was the Portuguese
- cellist Guilhermina Suggia.
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