Pablo Casals Medal – Bicentenary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach – Signed by Miquel Paredes
In bronze
Weight: 112.9 g
Diameter: 59 mm
Obverse:
Head left of cellist, conductor and composer Pau Casals , above the town of Prades .
Circular inscription:
MONUMENTUM • CONFECTUM • PAU • CASALS • AUCTORE • PRADES • GALLIA
2-20 m. IUN. a. MCML
Signature:
MIQUEL
WALLS
FECIT
Reverse:
Bust of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach .
1685-1750
Circular inscription:
• • AD • I • S • BACH • MORTEM • COMMEMORANDAM • •
DUCENTESIMUM • SOLLEMN
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
History:
At the end of 1936, Casals fled Franco’s Spain and found refuge in the small town of Prades at the foot of Mount Canigou. He refused all invitations to play or conduct in protest against Franco’s dictatorship and led a solitary and very modest existence. In 1950, he broke his silence to take part in the commemorations of the bicentenary of Bach’s death in Prades.
