Guilhermina Suggia, cellist / Anita Mercier.

Author/creator Mercier, Anita, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Descriptionxiv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Suggia, Guilhermina, 1885-1950.
Cellists--Biography.

Contents Teachers and mentors -- Casals-Suggia -- A new beginning -- The lady of the castle -- Portrait of the artist -- Turning point -- Queen of the cello -- The final decade.
Abstract 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 they 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 Cartcado Mena and settled down to a comfortable life divided between Portugal and England.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-156), discography (pages 157-161).
Bibliography note"Suggia's published writings": pages 199-132.
LCCN 2007045520
ISBN9780754661696 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754661695 (alk. paper)

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