With which musical instrument is Pablo Casals associated?
Pablo Casals Festival composer Thorsten Encke for his "String Quartet" (2004). The second edition took place on 14 April 2007 and the prize, with a 15,000 euros reward, was awarded to Hee Yun Kim for "Mémoire de Dong-Hak", quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. Pablo Casals Festival The Pablo Casals Festival is a music festival created by the cellist and conductor Pablo Casals in 1950. Before the Second World War, Prades became the adopted village of Pablo Casals who no longer wanted to live in Spain after the 1936–1939 civil war won by the Francoists, while remaining in Catalonia; from then
Pablo Casals Festival for the bicentenary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach: in front of his repeated refusal, his friends, and particularly the violinist Alexander Schneider, offered him to come and play at his house in Prades; Pablo Casals accepted. The greatest performers of his time could be found there: (Clara Haskil, Mieczysław Horszowski, Isaac Stern, Marcel Tabuteau, Joseph Szigeti, Rudolf Serkin, Paul Tortelier, etc.) which made it a place of musical fervour Thus was born the "Festival de Prades" which has continued since that date, seeing the greatest chamber music performers in the world. Pablo Casals still participated at the age