Jacqueline du Pré

Jacqueline du Pré

Jacqueline du Pré, was born into a middle-class English family in Oxford on 26 January 1945. Hers was a musical household, and at the age of four the young Jackie was famously struck by the sound of a cello playing on the radio. She told her mother, ‘I want to make that sound'. Cello and piano lessons followed with her mother Iris, a concert pianist and, by all accounts, an inspirational teacher who turned her children’s music lessons into a journey of play and discovery. She moved on to lessons with the celebrated cellist William Pleeth (whom she nicknamed her ‘cello-daddy’) at the age of 10. At the age of 17 she astonished audiences and critics with her fiery performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a work that has remained synonymous with her name ever since. Du Pré embarked on a glittering international career, performing and recording with fellow young musical stars such as Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim, whom she married in 1967. But just six years later in 1973 the increasing ill health she had begun to experience was diagnosed as multiple sclerosis. She was just 28 when her playing career came to an end, but she continued, while she was able, to teach and give masterclasses. She died in October 1987 at the age of 42.

  • Title : Jacqueline du Pré
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  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1945-01-26
  • Place of Birth : Oxford, England, UK
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Jacqueline du Pré Movies

  • 1970
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    The Trout

    The Trout

    1 1970 HD

    Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout...

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  • 1970
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    The Ghost

    The Ghost

    1 1970 HD

    This is almost certainly the finest performance ever filmed of this great work - Beethoven’s Piano Trio Opus 70 No. 1, known as The Ghost. The...

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  • 1994
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    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

    1 1994 HD

    The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the...

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  • 1970
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    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words

    1 1970 HD

    A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive...

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