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Pau Casals Auditorium is situated in the maritime area of SantSalvador- El Vendrell.

It has been built in a modern and agile framework, in order to fulfill its basic function, to be a concert hall.


Pau Casals was one of the greatest cellists of the 20 th Century, internationally recognised as one of the finest performers and orchestra conductors of his time.

Born in El Vendrell on December 29, 1876, he showed great musical sensitivity from an early age. At the tender age of twenty-three, he started out his professional career and performed in the world's most famous concertshalls.

The outcome of the Spanish Civil War obliged him to go into exile, and settle in France and in Puerto Rico.

Pau Casals died in 1973 at the age of ninety-six in Puerto Rico. His remains now rest in the cementiry of El Vendrell.



In 1909 he had the Vil·la Casals built a place where he coult rest after his touring.

Pau Casals Auditorium is situated opposite to Vil·la Casals . Now is a museum that managed to recretate the intimate and family feeling and beauty of the house at its best, where visitors can discover the intense life of the famous cellist by means of contemporany museum tour.



Pau Casals Auditorium. It was opened on the 6th of June 1981 thanks to the effort and good will of different institutions to save all the difficulties at the moment. Jordi Bonet Armengol was the architect. He wrote: "The whole building reminds me an awning and it shows clearly the functional nature of a concert hall. The inward appearance will pretend to be a boat keel, showing its ribcage. This will allow a reflector or absorbent surface that will break the sound and will correct the reverberation time till the optimum demanded for the concert halls".
 


It has to be emphasized the lighting of the room and the stained glass windows at the back of the stage, made by the painter Vila Grau and the glazier Granell.




In 1983 a big space next to the Auditorium was urbanized: it is the called Joan Sebastian Bach Square, with a Josep M. Subirachs sculpture. This sculpture, in honor of Pau Casals, represents Apolo, God of music and poetry, playing cello. On the base of the sculpture you can read the following phrase: "Bach is a miracle".

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