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Pablo Casals
Will Marion Cook

Arcangelo Corelli
Albert Einstein

Pablo Casals
b. 12-29-1876; Catalonia, Spain
d. 10-22-1973; San Juan, Puerto Rico

Pablo Casals, regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time, was also a composer - one of his last compositions was the “Hymn of the United Nations”.

Among the notable people Casals played for were Queen Victoria and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1904) and John F. Kennedy (1961).

Will Marion Cook
b. 1-27-1869; Washington, DC
d. 7-19-1944

Composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. Among his notable works is In Dahomey (1903), the first all-Black musical on a major Broadway stage.

Arcangelo Corelli
b. 2-17-1653; Fusignano, Italy
d. 1-8-1713; Rome

Violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli is remembered today through the long line of pupils who have been taught in the Corelli style.

Albert Einstein
b. 3-14-1879; Ulm, Germany
d. 4-18-1955; Princeton, NJ

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein was a fine violinist who loved the sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.”

Mischa Elman
b. 1-20-1891; near Kiev, Ukraine
d. 4-5-1967; New York City

Violinist Mischa Elman was noted for his style and tone.