Jacqueline du Pré

Jacqueline Mary du Pré (January 26, 1945 – October 19, 1987) was an English cellist.

The disease

In 1973, the passionate sound of Jacqueline du Pré's cello started its irreversible decline, when the artist began to lose sensitivity in her fingers. It was the start of multiple sclerosis, the disease that caused her health to deteriorate until her death in London on October 19, 1987, at the age of 42. Barenboim was with her when she died. She left her 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius to Yo-Yo Ma.

Related Topics:
Multiple sclerosis - London - October 19 - Stradivarius - Yo-Yo Ma

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In the last years of du Pré's life, Barenboim, with his wife's consent, set up home in Paris with pianist Elena Bashkirova, and fathered two children by her. They married in 1988.

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