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Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist (Paperback)
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Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist (Paperback)
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Born in 1885 in Porto, Portugal, to a middle-class musical family,
Guilhermina Suggia began playing cello at the age of five. A child
prodigy, she was already a seasoned performer when she won a
scholarship to study with Julius Klengel in Leipzig at the age of
sixteen. Suggia lived in Paris with fellow cellist Pablo Casals for
several years before World War I, in a professional and personal
partnership that was as stormy as it was unconventional. When they
separated Suggia moved to London, where she built a spectacularly
successful solo career. Suggia's virtuosity and musicianship, along
with the magnificent style and stage presence famously captured in
Augustus John's portrait, made her one of the most sought-after
concert artists of her day. In 1927 she married Dr Jose Casimiro
Carteado Mena and settled down to a comfortable life divided
between Portugal and England. Throughout the 1930s, Suggia remained
one of the most respected musicians in Europe. She partnered on
stage with many famous instrumentalists and conductors and
completed numerous BBC broadcasts. The war years kept her at home
in Portugal, where she focused on teaching, but she returned to
England directly after the war and resumed performing. When Suggia
died in 1950, her will provided for the establishment of several
scholarship funds for young cellists, including England's
prestigious Suggia Gift. Mercier's study of Suggia's letters and
other writings reveal an intelligent, warm and generous character;
an artist who was enormously dedicated, knowledgeable and
self-disciplined. Suggia was one of the first women to make a
career of playing the cello at a time when prejudice against women
playing this traditionally 'masculine' instrument was still strong.
A role model for many other musicians, she was herself a fearless
pioneer.
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