Auguste Durand

(Marie) Auguste MASSACRIÉ-DURAND , Organist and editor French born with Paris the July 18th 1830 and died in this same city the May 31st 1909.

Biography

He studies the Orgue with François Benoist and practical this instrument in 1849 with Saint-Ambroise, then in Holy-Genevieve, Saint-Roch and Saint-Vincent de Paul (1862-1874). In parallel, it becomes critical musical and composes. Two pieces are popular: its chaconne and its waltz for piano .

With Louis Schönewerk, piano maker associated with six other silent partners, they found the company Durand-Schönewerk & Co in December 1869 and acquire important the Flaxland funds created in 1847. The company is established with 4, place de la Madeleine.

Following a litigation with the six associated ones, the company is dissolved on March 18th, 1885 and put on sale on adjudication in May 1896. Auguste Durand and Schönewerk repurchase the funds in his totality and they reconstitute a company for five years by associating with it the son, Jacques Durand (born in Paris on February 22nd, 1865 and deceased with the manor of Beautiful Plays about with Avon (Seine-et-Marne) on August 22nd, 1928).

In November 1891, it replaces Schönewerk and a change of company name takes place to be named: A. Durand & wire which will become with dead of Auguste Durand & Co .

As from 1921, Jacques takes the direction of the company with Gaston Choisnel and Roger Dommange. He supplements the catalog of Flaxland (more than one thousand of works of the last centuries) by buying works for piano, of the chamber music of Chopin and Schumann and the first compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns.

The Durand house becomes expert in the publication of works of large French type-setters like: Victorin de Joncières, Edouard Lalo, Jules Massenet, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Paul Dukas, etc

It publishes also the French editions of Tannhäuser, the Ghost ship and Lohengrin of Richard Wagner as well as many editions of old Masters including/understanding, in particular, a complete critical edition of Rameau realized under the initial direction of Camille Saint-Saëns.

Between 1910 and 1913, Auguste and his Jacques son organize concerts to make be up to all the tricks new. In 1914, they publish under the title: traditional Edition Durand & wire important works for piano of the 19th century: music of Chopin revised by Debussy; that of Mendelssohn by Maurice Ravel and that of Schumann by Gabriel Fauré.

The compositions which come to enrich the price by composition created by the Durand editions into 1927 are those of Francis Poulenc, of Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, André Jolivet.

In 1982, the Durand house reconstitutes a new catalog of modern music. In 1987, it takes again the Amphion editions and max Eschig and with the beginning of the year 1990, the catalog of serious music Red Rideau. It is called from now on Éditions Durand-Salabert-Eschig. Since 2000, Durand became a company affiliated to BMG and Stephan Berlow is her current President.

Writings of Jacques DURAND

professional Course with the use of the employees of trade of music (two volumes, 1923),
Some memories of an editor of music (two volumes, 1924-1925),
Letters of Claude Debussy to his editor (Paris, 1927).

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