Paul Paray

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Paul Paray (born Le Tréport, May 24, 1886 - died Monte Carlo, October 10, 1979) was a French conductor, organist and composer. He is best remembered in the United States for being the resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade. He married Yolande Falck on August 25 1944. Paray's father, Auguste, was a sculptor and organist at St. Jacques church, and leader of an amateur musical society. He put young Paul in the society's orchestra as a drummer. Later, Paul Paray went to Rouen to study music with the abbots Bourgeois and Bourdon, and organ with Haelling. This prepared him to enter the Paris Conservatoire. In 1911, Paul Paray won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Yanitza. As World War I started, Paul Paray heeded the call to arms and joined the French Army. In 1914, he was a prisoner of war at the Darmstadt camp, where he composed a string quartet. After the war, Paray was invited to conduct the orchestra of the Casino de Cauterets, which included players from the Lamoureux Orchestra. This was a springboard for him to conduct this Orchestra in Paris. Later he was music director of the Monte Carlo Orchestra, and president of the Concerts Colonne. In 1922, Paray composed the ballet Adonis troublé. In 1931, he wrote the Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc, which was premiered at the cathedral in Rouen to commemorate the quincentennary of Joan of Arc's martyr death. In 1935, he wrote his Symphony No. 1 in C ma

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Paray Conducts Berlioz, Chabrier, Ravel, Saint-Saëns and Others

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Paul Paray conducts French Orchestral Music

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50 Shades of Sensual Classics - 50 Colourful Sensual Moments

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Debussy For Daydreaming - Music To Caress Your Innermost Thoughts

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Lullabies for Lovers

Chabrier - Roussel

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Tutti! Orchestral Sampler

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Franz von Suppé: Overtures by Paul Paray

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Marches Et Ouvertures A La Française

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Bizet: Carmen Suite; Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Thomas: Mignon & Raymond Overtures

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Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale; Fete Polonaise; Overture "Gwendoline"; Danse Slave; Roussel: Suite in F

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Debussy at Dawn

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