Pilar Defilló Amiguet

Pilar Defilló Amiguet (November 11, 1853 - March 11, 1931, Catalonia, Spain) was a Puerto Rican and Catalan musician, known as the mother of Enric and Pablo Casals.[1]

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.[2] In Mayagüez, she worked in her father’s shop “El cronometro” keeping the books until his death in 1871.[3] After her father's death, she emigrated with her mother to El Vendrell, Tarragona, in 1871,[4] where she married Carles Casals Ribes, the pianist and organist from the parroquial church El Vendrell, after having been an outstanding pupil of his.[5][6][7] Her father had belonged to the Secret Abolitionist Society run by Ramón Emeterio Betances, a friend of the family's.[8]

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.[1]

References
  1. "Inauguran en Puerto Rico casa-museo de la família del músico español Pau Casals". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. May 9, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  2. Zapata, J. Gabriel (May 14, 2016). "Pilar Defillo House Museum: A Jewel to be Found". Her Campus at University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  3. Zapata, J. Gabriel (May 14, 2016). "Pilar Defillo House Museum: A Jewel to be Found". Her Campus at University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  4. Carmona Bosch, Amanda (October 6, 2011). "Pilar, cosa sublim". Mayagüez sabe a mangó (in Spanish). Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  5. Azcárate, Graciela (January 22, 2005). "La familia Defilló Sanz". Periódico Hoy (in Spanish). Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  6. Zapata, J. Gabriel (May 14, 2016). "Pilar Defillo House Museum: A Jewel to be Found". Her Campus at University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  7. "Casa Museo Pilar Defilló". El Nuevo Dia. Puerto Rico. January 5, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  8. Gil, Millie (October 10, 2014). "Una obra de arte, la casa Pilar Defilló". Mayagüez sabe a mangó (in Spanish). Retrieved June 19, 2015.
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