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From musician to man of peace
1936
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War and recordings of the Bach Cello Suites
On 18th July, during a rehearsal with the Pablo Casals Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Pablo Casals receives the news of the military uprising.
The Pablo Casals Orchestra is dissolved.
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Pablo Casals continues to tour Europe and South America, giving benefit concerts for food, clothing and medicines.
Between 1936 and 1939 Pablo Casals records Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Cello Suites in London and Paris.
1937
Concerts in Europe and tour of South America
Between April and May he gives several concerts in Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Zurich and Paris.
A few days later he begins a two-month tour of South America, where he had not returned since 1904. On 17th November, he records Donald Francis Tovey’s Cello Concerto in C major with the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult.
Appointed Honorary President of the Musician