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Pau Casals was born -
His father and a friend build him the pumpkin, considered
his first cello. -
He began his studies at the Barcelona Municipal School of Music -
He starts playing in public at Cafè Tost in Barcelona.
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Discover the suites of Johan Sebastian Bach. -
Queen Maria Cristina grants him a scholarship and he begins his studies at the Real Conservatory of Music in Madrid. -
Travel to Brussels and Paris. Renunciation of the scholarship of Queen Maria Cristina -
He returns to Barcelona, where he joins as a teacher at the Municipal School
of Music and the Liceu Conservatory. -
Debuts in Paris with the Lamoureux Orchestra. -
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. -
6 Debut of the trio Cortot-Thibaud-Casals -
Debuts in Vienna at the Grand Hall of the Musikverein. -
He marries the soprano Susan Metcalfe and they settle in New Rochelle, New York. -
First recordings for the Columbia Gramophone Company. -
He refuses to touch Russia until democratic principles are established there -
On his return to Barcelona, he creates the Pau Casals Orchestra. -
Creates the Concert Workers Association. -
He refuses to touch Germany until freedom is restored there -
He does charity concerts for the victims of the Civil War. Start recordings
from the Six Suites for Cello by J.S. Bach. -
Last concert in Barcelona for the benefit of the Children's Aid Society. -
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 -
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. -
First Prada Festival -
He makes his first trip to his mother's homeland, Puerto Rico. -
First Casals Festival in San Juan de Puerto Rico. He marries Marta Montañez and establishes residence in Puerto Rico -
Concert and speech in favor of world peace at the United Nations. -
Premiere of the oratorio El Pessebre in Acapulco, Mexico. -
Concert at the White House, invited by the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy -
He begins his personal crusade for peace that leads him to direct the oratory
The Nativity around the world. -
John F. Kennedy awards him the Medal of Freedom.
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Last concert at the United Nations, where he is awarded the Peace Medal.
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He died in San Juan de Puerto Rico on October 22
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Return of his remains to his native town, Vendrell, on November 10.