Where was Pablo Casals buried before he was finally laid to rest in Spain?
Pablo Casals Stern, Casals arrived at Jerusalem to conduct the youth orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. The concert he conducted with the youth orchestra at the Jerusalem Khan Theater was the last concert he conducted in his life. Casals' memoirs were taken down by Albert E. Kahn, and published as "Joys and Sorrows: Pablo Casals, His Own Story" (1970). Casals died in 1973 at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 96, from complications of a heart attack he had three weeks earlier. He was buried at the Puerto Rico National Cemetery. He did not live
Pablo Casals Festival 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 on, he refused to perform in public in protest. Following the Second World War and this long period of silence, he was solicited by music lovers all over the world. He was asked to play again in concert and in particular in 1950