At the age of 13, not long after he had begun playing the cello, Pablo Casals was browsing in a secondhand music store in Barcelona. On a dusty shelf, he noticed the scores of six suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach. The year was 1890, and these works were virtually unknown. None of Casals's teachers had so much as ...
Source: http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/02/21/a_gold...
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