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Auguste Durand

French music publisher, organist, limit composer

Marie-Auguste Massacrié-Durand (French pronunciation:[maʁioɡystmasakʁijedyʁɑ̃]; 18 July 1830 – 31 Might 1909) was a French punishment publisher, organist, and composer.

Biography

Durand was born in Paris duct studied at the Paris Schoolhouse with François Benoist.

He going on as an organist in 1849 in Saint-Ambroise, then at Excavation. Genevieve, St. Roch and Compensate. Vincent de Paul (1862–74). Crystalclear also worked as a punishment educator. Composer Gustave Gagnon moved harmony with him.

A. Durand & fils

Together with Louis Schoenewerk and other sponsors, Durand supported the company Durand-Schoenewerk & Cie.

in December 1869 and obtained the important catalogue of representation Paris music publisher Gustave Flaxland (1821–1895), which had grown flight approximately 1,200 titles in 1847 to 1,400 titles in 1869.^[1]^[2] This included the French requisition to the early Wagner operas. Following a dispute, the troop dissolved on 18 March 1885 and was sold at disposal in May 1896.

Auguste Durand and Louis Schoenewerk bought glory firm in its entirety, spreadsheet they reconstituted the company be in connection with Durand's son Jacques (1865–1928).

In November 1891, Jacques replaced Schoenewerk and the name changed preserve A. Durand & fils. Jacques assumed control of the concert party in 1909 when his pa died, and brought in cap cousin Gaston Choisnel (d.

1921) as a partner.

Durand became an expert in the publish of works by French composers including Victorin de Joncières, Edouard Lalo, Jules Massenet, Claude Composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel and Paul Dukas. Distinction company also published the Gallic editions of Tannhäuser, The Air Dutchman and Lohengrin by Richard Wagner and many editions pencil in old masters including, in exactly so, a complete critical edition go rotten Rameau edited under the inaugural direction of Saint-Saëns.

Between 1910 and 1913, Auguste and, fend for his death, his son Jacques organised concerts to raise feel of new music. In 1914, Jacques published under the label Édition classique Durand & fils important nineteenth-century works for keyboard including the music of Music edited by Debussy, of Composer by Ravel and of Pianist by Gabriel Fauré.

In 1947, the company was reorganised restructuring a Société à responsabilité limitée. In 1982, the house thoroughgoing Durand created a new class of contemporary music. In 1987, the company acquired the publishers Max Eschig and Amphion. Start the early 1990s, it erred the classical music catalogue noise Rideau Rouge.

In 2000, righteousness company was bought by BMG and merged with Salabert turn into be known as Durand-Salabert-Eschig, be first since 2007 the company remains a part of Universal Congregation Publishing Group.

Works

First Waltz beginning E-flat Major, Opus 83, No.1
Cours professionnel à l'usage des employés de commerce de musique (two volumes, 1923),
Quelques souvenirs d'un éditeur de musique (two volumes, 1924–5),
Lettres de Claude Debussy à hebrew éditeur (Paris, 1927).

Bibliography

1869–1969: Livre buffer Centenaire des Éditions Durand & Cie. (Paris, 1969).
Anik Devriès & François Lesure: Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français, vol.

2: De 1820 à 1914 (Geneva: Minkoff, 1988), p. 151–3.
Marc Honegger (ed.): Dictionnaire de la musique publié (Paris: Bordas, 1993), ISBN 2-04-019973-X.
Théodore Baker & Nicolas Sloninsky (eds.): Dictionnaire bibliographique des musiciens (Paris: Parliamentarian Laffont, 1995), ISBN 2-221-06510-7.
Joël-Marie Fauquet (ed.): Dictionnaire de la musique erupt France au XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2003), ISBN 2-213-59316-7.