Someone I admire…

Hi everyone! 

I´m want to talk about: Jacqueline du Pre, the best cellist around the word.

I considered an expert, becouse she mark a milestone at the cello's history and I admire her, she was a figther and determined woman.

nevertheless She has a very sad history.. here we go...

                                              

Jacqueline Mary du Pré was born in Oxford on January 26, 1945. Her parents were Iris and Derek du Pré, and she had one older sister Hilary. 

She began to show incredible musical promise at a very young age and began to play the cello at the age of four. At ten years old Jacqueline du Pré studied under William Pleeth. She then studied with Casals, Tortelier and Rostropovich.

In March 1961, at age 16, du Pré made her formal début, at Wigmore Hall, London. She was accompanied by Ernest Lush, and played sonatas by Handel, Brahms, Debussy and de Falla, and a solo cello suite by Bach.

In 1965 she recorded the Elgar Concertowith Sir John Barbirolli and the London Symphony Orchestra, a recording which established her stardom. Her unselfishness made her a brilliant chamber music player, collaborating with many of today's greatest names in music. And at that time was given the gift from an anonymous donor of the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius (  a violoncello), which she was to play for the rest of her life and eventually leave to Yo-Yo Ma (an other great cellist) when she died.

She married pianist Daniel Barenboim in 1967, converted to Judaism, and had a very good life with him, yet she still felt strain from her early career start. But in 1969, Jackie began feeling intense numbness in her hands and feet, By the fall of 1973 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She continued to teach on occasion, but the deterioration of her health gained momentum and finally, on October 19, 1987, she died at the age of forty-two.

All the good artists die young....

I would like to share this concert with you

bye byee