# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pablo-casals
# Generated: 2026-09-02T23:05:41.575Z

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name: "Pablo Casals"
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description: "He gave the cello suites Bach wrote a voice the world had never heard — and then gave up his homeland rather than play under dictatorship. Casals walked away from Spain in 1939 and didn't return, turning exile into a second career and a principle that lasted thirty-four years."
tagline: "Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)"
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birthDate: "1876-12-29"
deathDate: "1973-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Pau Casals i Defilló in Catalonia in 1876, he built an international career on recordings of solo, chamber, and orchestral work that traveled everywhere. When Franco's forces took Spain in 1939, Casals refused to go back until democracy returned — a line he held for the rest of his life. He settled first in Prades, France, then moved to Ceiba, Puerto Rico in 1956. Kennedy awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, though Johnson handed it over. In 1971 he conducted his Hymn to the United Nations at the U.N. itself, received the Peace Medal, and closed with a short speech and a Catalan folk song. He died in Puerto Rico two years later, still in exile.