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Paul Paray
French conductor and composer
Le Tréport, France • 1886-05-24 – 1979-10-10
Paul Paray is credited on 776 releases across 162 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
776
Pressings credited
162
Albums
8
Decades active
4
In collections
Biography
Paul Marie-Adolphe Charles Paray (French: [pɔl paʁɛ]; 24 May 1886 – 10 October 1979) was a French conductor, organist and composer. After winning France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome, he fought in the First World War and was a prisoner of war for nearly four years. He held a succession of chief conductorships, including those of the Lamoureux and Colonne Orchestras in Paris and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in Monaco. For ten years from 1952 he was chief conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with which he made a celebrated series of recordings for Mercury Records' "Living Presence" series, many of which have been digitally released in the 21st century.
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Credited work
776 releases · 162 albums · active 1951–2025
- Performance · 885
- Other credits · 44
Studios: Orchestra Hall, Detroit · Henry And Edsel Ford Auditorium · Cass Technical High School Auditorium, Detroit · The Detroit Ford Auditorium
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Ravel
- Wagner
- Schumann
- Maurice Ravel
- Debussy
- Mendelssohn
- Beethoven
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