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=== Death === Casals died on October 22, 1973 at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in [[Hato Rey, Puerto Rico]], at the age of 96, from complications of a heart attack he had had three weeks earlier. He was buried at Puerto Rico Memorial Cemetery in [[Carolina, Puerto Rico]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Casals, the Master Cellist, Won Wide Acclaim in Career That Spanned 75 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/23/archives/casals-the-master-cellist-won-wide-acclaim-in-career-that-spanned.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 October 1973}}</ref><ref name="death">{{cite news |date=23 October 1973 |title=Casals Dies in Puerto Rico at 96 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01E3D81739E73ABC4B51DFB6678388669EDE |access-date=23 January 2015 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |quote=Pablo Casals, the celebrated cellist and conductor, died today [October 22] at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago. He was 96 years old and lived in nearby Santurce with his wife, Marta}}</ref> He did not live to see the end of the Francoist State, which occurred two years later, but he was posthumously honoured by the Spanish government under [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|King Juan Carlos I]] which in 1976 issued a commemorative postage stamp depicting Casals, in honour of the centenary of his birth.<ref>''El PaΓs''/Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telegrafos 2003</ref> In 1979 his remains were interred in his hometown of El Vendrell, Tarragona. In 1989, Casals was posthumously awarded a [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref>[http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards/ Lifetime Achievement Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826002047/http://www2.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards |date=26 August 2010 }}, [[Grammy Award]] official web site, retrieved 1 August 2009.</ref>
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