Pablo Casals Autographs
Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 1876 – 22 October 1973), also known in English as Pablo Casals, was a Catalan and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings he made of the Cello Suites by Bach. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy (though the ceremony was presided over by Lyndon B. Johnson).
Casals was born in El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain. His father, Carles Casals i Ribes, was a parish organist and choirmaster. He gave Casals instruction in piano, songwriting, violin, and organ. He was also a very strict disciplinarian. When Casals was young, his father would pull the piano out from the wall and have him and his brother, Artur, stand behind it and name the notes and the scales that his father was playing. At the age of four, Casals could play the violin, piano and flute; at the age of six he played the violin well enough to perform a solo in public. His first encounter with a cello-like instrument was from witnessing a local travelling Catalan musician, who played a cello-strung broom handle. Upon request, his father built him a crude cello, using a gourd as a sound-box. When Casals was 11 years old, he first heard the real cello performed by a group of traveling musicians, and decided to dedicate himself to the instrument.
His mother, Doña Pilar Defilló de Casals, was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, to parents who were Catalan immigrants in Puerto Rico. In 1888, she took her son to Barcelona, where he was enrolled in the Escola Municipal de Música. There he studied cello, theory, and piano. In 1890, when he was 13, he found a tattered copy of Bach's six cello suites in a second-hand music store in Barcelona. He spent the next 13 years practicing them every day before he would perform them in public for the first time. Casals would later make his own version of the six suites. He made prodigious progress as a cellist; on 23 February 1891 he gave a solo recital in Barcelona at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Escola with honours five years later.
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Traded items with a signature of Pablo Casals
The most expensive item with a signature of Pablo Casals (Pablo CASALS: Three Autograph Letters (CELLO) (CELLIST)) was sold in December 2025 for $2,002.00 while the cheapest item (First Day Covers- signed by A Pablo Casals - famous cellist) found a new owner for $7.00 in January 2013. The month with the most items sold (3) was February 2015 with an average selling price of $150.00 for an autographed item of Pablo Casals. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2025 with $1,322.42 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $14.99 was April 2010. In average, an autographed item from Pablo Casals is worth $150.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Pablo Casals were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Original Chorus Score for EL Pessebre SIGNED by Pablo Casals & 2 other members | $22.10 |  |
| Original Chorus Score for EL Pessebre SIGNED by Pablo Casals & 2 other members | $22.10 | |
| Pablo Casals Rare Signed Program Pittsburgh 1965 w/Clipping fr original owner | $99.00 | |
| Pablo Casals Rare Signed Program Pittsburgh 1965 w/Clipping fr original owner | $99.00 | |
| Pablo Casals (d.1973) rare Festival TLS signed page BAS autographed auto cellist | $99.99 | |
| PABLO CASALS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/13/1948 | $1,322.42 | |
| PABLO CASALS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/13/1948 | $1,322.42 | |
 | Pablo CASALS / Original bust-length portrait drawing of the famed Catalan Signed | $1,438.00 | |
| Pablo CASALS / Original bust-length portrait drawing of the famed Catalan Signed | $1,438.00 | |
| Pablo CASALS / Original bust-length portrait drawing of the famed Catalan Signed | $1,438.00 | |
| Pablo CASALS / Original bust-length portrait drawing of the famed Catalan Signed | $1,438.00 | |
 | Pablo Casals Autographed Concert Program May 1968 Istomin Stern Rose | $142.26 | |
| Pablo Casals Autographed Concert Program May 1968 Istomin Stern Rose | $142.26 | |
| Pablo Casals Composer Conductor Cellist Rare Signed Autograph Photo Psa-dna | $279.00 | |
| Pablo Casals Composer Conductor Cellist Rare Signed Autograph Photo Psa-dna | $279.00 | |
Latest News about Pablo Casals
Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals (03/02/2023): The celebrated cellist capped a concert with the New York Philharmonic with a work that Pablo Casals often played to protest war and oppression.
