Pau Casals a Puerto Rico. Un arxiu inèdit

Pau Casals (1876-1973), cellist, conductor, composer and committed advocate for peace, was one of the most renowned musical figures of the 20th century. The last eighteen years of his life, between 1955 and 1973, were spent mainly in Puerto Rico, where he developed a large part of his artistic and intellectual activity. On the island he launched an ambitious cultural project with an international vocation, took part in the creation of new musical institutions, conducted orchestras, composed and maintained an intense public activity. This exhibition presents, for the first time and on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the documentary testimony of this period. This period can be reconstructed today thanks to the collections preserved by the Fundació Pau Casals and the Fideicomiso Pablo Casals de Puerto Rico, which make it possible to follow its evolution through numerous documentary records. The archive becomes the guiding thread of the itinerary: it not only preserves the memory of events, but also the trace of the work processes, the negotiations, and the personal and professional relationships that made many of these initiatives possible. Activity included within the events of the Any Pau Casals commemoration.