Pilar Defilló Amiguet (November 11, 1853, Mayagüez,

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- March 11, 1931,

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) was a Puerto Rican and

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musician, known as the mother of Enric and

Pablo Casals Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals,

Biography

She was the daughter of Joseph Defilló Tusquellas (c.1815 - Mayagüez, 1871) and Raimunda Amiguet Ferrer, who both immigrated to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico in 1849 as political refugees from Cataluña. In Mayagüez, she worked in her father’s shop “El cronometro” keeping the books until his death in 1871. After her father's death, she emigrated with her mother to

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, in 1871, where she married Carles Casals Ribes, the pianist and organist from the parroquial church El Vendrell, after having been an outstanding pupil of his. Her father had belonged to the Secret Abolitionist Society run by

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, a friend of the family's. On May 8, 2015, the birthplace of Pilar Defilló at 21 Calle Mendez Vigo in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, which had been built in 1841 and recently had been restored, opened as the ''Casa Museo Pilar Defilló,'' a cultural museum devoted to Pablo Casals.

References

External links

Video inauguración del Museu Pilar Defilló, espacio cultural Pau Casals
en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico {{DEFAULTSORT:Defillo Amiguet, Pilar 1853 births 1931 deaths Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent People from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico