Paray, Paul

Paul Paray
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Name	Paray, Paul Gender: M
born on	24 May 1886 at 02:00 (= 02:00 AM )
Place	Le Tréport, France, 50n04, 1e22
Timezone	LMT m1e22 (is local mean time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Taeger
Astrology data	02°47' 12°06 Asc. 03°36'

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Paul Paray
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Biography

French conductor, organist and composer.

In 1911, Paul Paray won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Yanitza.

In 1914, he was a prisoner of war at the Darmstadt camp, where he composed a string quartet. Refusing any musical association with the Germans, he submitted to a harsh four-year period of captivity, while developing the astonishing ability to compose music without the aid of an instrument, conceiving and formulating all the musical details mentally which he would later transcribe on paper in a single stroke, without erasure.

In 1952, he was appointed music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra which he had built it into one of the world's most distinguished.

His vast culture and prodigious musical memory permitted him to excel in the classical orchestral repertory, whether it be German, French or Russian, and to conduct the numerous premiers his contemporaries asked of him.

His own works are rich in rhythmic and melodic invention. They include vocal and choral works, piano, chamber music, mass and symphonies.

He died 10 October 1979, Monte Carlo.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 10 October 1979
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Source Notes

Taeger quotes Lescaut who quotes Barbault, B.R.

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Memory

• Traits : Personality : Ambitious

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Conductor

• Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Music

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession