Editing Paul Paray (section)

==Reputation==
===Composer===
''[[Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]]'' describes Paray as "the composer of several highly competent works" including ''Yanita'', the Mass, the Violin Sonata, a Cello Sonata (1919)  a ballet – {{lang|fr|Artémis troublée}} (1922), a Fantasie for piano and orchestra (1923) and two symphonies (1935 and 1940).<ref name=baker/> ''[[Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'' comments, "As a composer he tended towards academic propriety".<ref name=grove/>

===Conductor===
According to ''Grove'', Paray gained a reputation as "a reliable conductor in a wide range of the classical repertory".<ref name=grove/> The British magazine ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'', reviewing the release of his Mercury recordings on 45 CDs, classed him as a great conductor and said that he created a magnificent ensemble during his ten years as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's music director.<ref>Cowan, Rob and James Jolly [https://www.gramophone.co.uk/podcasts/article/paul-paray-the-art-of-the-great-conductor "Paul Paray: The art of the great conductor"], ''Gramophone'', 29 July 2022</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' said of him, "He was credited with establishing the Detroit Symphony as a thoroughly professional ensemble of national stature, and within two years after taking it over, he brought it to New York for its first concert here".<ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/13/archives/paul-paray-leader-of-orchestras-93-appeared-frequently-in-new-york.html "Paul Paray"], ''The New York Times'', 13 October 1979, p. 34</ref> The same paper remarked "Mr Paray limited his conducting of 20th‐century works to those of a conservative stamp".<ref name=nyt/>

===Honours===
Paray was elected to the [[Académie des Beaux-Arts]] in 1950. His awards included a doctorate of law from [[Wayne University]], the City Medal from [[Tel Aviv]], and honorary citizenships of Detroit, [[Diemeringen]], Le Tréport and Monaco. He was named a Grand Officer of the [[Order of Grimaldi]] in 1967, and awarded the Grand Cross of the [[Ordre national du Mérite|National Order of Merit]] in 1971.  In the [[Legion of Honour]], like Saint-Saëns and Fauré before him, he was promoted to the highest rank, Grand Cross.<ref name=pp/>