Orquestra Pau Casals

[2] Casals hired musicians full-time and invested his savings to balance the accounts.

He spent a great deal of effort in working with the orchestra and raising the level of technical accomplishment, so much so that he suffered a "nervous breakdown" at one point and had to rest for several months.

However, after nine years of training, the Orquestra Pau Casals became recognized as one of the finer orchestras in Europe, attracting high quality soloists and guest conductors.

[3] Casals organized his orchestral performances to appeal to the working-class people of Catalonia, and workmen and their families often attended, listening to Mozart, Beethoven and other classical repertoire.

[5][6] The orchestra recorded Beethoven's First and Fourth Symphonies in November 1929.