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=Jacqueline du Pré =

Jacqueline du Pré was born on January 26, 1945 in Oxford, London. Her mother was a gifted pianist and at the age of five Jacqueline was already showing musical talent. At this age she started to attend the London Cello School. At ten years old she started to study with William Pleeth and then with Casals, Tortelier and Rostropovich. At the age of 16 she was given the incredible instrument to play that is the Davidoff Stradivarius. Because of her incredible expressiveness, preciseness, and purity of tones, she is considered one of the greatest cellists to ever have played.

When she was 24 she started to feel a numbness in her hands and feet. When she finally went to a doctor it was brushed off as simply being stress. When she was 28 the numbness had grown so much that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and the doctor informed her that she would soon be unable to play. When she was 32 she had to stop playing and she later died from the illness in 1987.

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