The greatest performers of his time could be found there: (Clara Haskil, Mieczysław Horszowski, Isaac Stern, Marcel Tabuteau, Joseph Szigeti, Rudolf Serkin, Paul Tortelier, etc.)
Pablo Casals still participated at the age of ninety, conducting his oratorio El Pessebre[2] (The Crib), a work written during the war on a poem by his friend Joan Alavedra i Segurañas [ca].
The Festival takes place, among other venues, in one of the jewels of Romanesque Catalonia, the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, at the feet of the Canigou.
In 2005 the "International Composition Competition of the Pablo Casals Festival of Prades" was created, the winner of which was the German composer Thorsten Encke[3] for his String Quartet (2004).
The second edition took place on 14 April 2007 and the prize, with a 15,000 euros reward, was awarded to Hee Yun Kim[4] for Mémoire de Dong-Hak, quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.