Which musical instrument was associated with Jacqueline du Pre?
Jacqueline du Pré Jacqueline du Pré Jacqueline Mary du Pré, OBE (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist. At a young age, she achieved enduring mainstream popularityunusual for a classical artist. Despite her short career, she is regarded as one of the greatest cellists of all time. Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at the age of 28. She battled the illness for many years until her death at the age of 42. Posthumously, she was the subject of a film titled "Hilary and Jackie" that was factually controversial and criticised
Jacqueline du Pré an extramarital affair with Christopher Finzi, her brother-in-law, from 1971 to 1972 when she was visiting Hilary's family. In an interview Finzi said that Du Pre "phoned up and asked me to come over" to have sex. The posthumous memoir "A Genius in the Family" by Hilary and Piers du Pré later became the subject of the 1998 film adaptation "Hilary and Jackie", directed by Anand Tucker, which in turn promoted the popularity of the memoir. Both the book and film adaptation have been criticised for sensationalising Jacqueline du Pré's personal life, although the general claim of an affair was