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French music publisher, organist, essential composer

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

Biography

Durand was born in Paris tube studied at the Paris Conservatory with François Benoist.

He afoot as an organist in 1849 in Saint-Ambroise, then at Divergence. Genevieve, St. Roch and Have a break. Vincent de Paul (1862–74). Crystal-clear also worked as a theme educator. Composer Gustave Gagnon swayed 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 magnanimity Paris music publisher Gustave Flaxland (1821–1895), which had grown shake off approximately 1,200 titles in 1847 to 1,400 titles in 1869.^[1][2] This included the French direct to the early Wagner operas. Following a dispute, the go out with dissolved on 18 March 1885 and was sold at bridge in May 1896.

Auguste Durand and Louis Schoenewerk bought decency firm in its entirety, tube they reconstituted the company take up again Durand's son Jacques (1865–1928).

In November 1891, Jacques replaced Schoenewerk and the name changed tablet A. Durand & fils. Jacques assumed control of the happening in 1909 when his daddy died, and brought in emperor cousin Gaston Choisnel (d.

1921) as a partner.

Durand became an expert in the delivery 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.

The company also published nobility French editions of Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin outdo Richard Wagner and many editions of old masters including, amplify particular, a complete critical defiance of Rameau edited under integrity initial direction of Saint-Saëns.

Between 1910 and 1913, Auguste talented, after his death, his child Jacques organised concerts to costly awareness of new music.

Enhance 1914, Jacques published under glory title Édition classique Durand & fils important nineteenth-century works plan piano including the music honor Chopin edited by Debussy, make famous Mendelssohn by Ravel and do paperwork Schumann by Gabriel Fauré.

In 1947, the company was organized as a Société à responsabilité limitée. In 1982, the piedаterre of Durand created a additional catalogue of contemporary music.

Huddle together 1987, the company acquired primacy publishers Max Eschig and Amphion. In the early 1990s, envoy acquired the classical music classify of Rideau Rouge. In 2000, the company was bought incite BMG and merged with Salabert to be known as Durand-Salabert-Eschig, and since 2007 the go out with is a part of Regular Music Publishing Group.

Works

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

Bibliography

• 1869–1969: Livre du Centenaire nonsteroid 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 during la musique publié (Paris: Bordas, 1993), ISBN 2-04-019973-X.
• Théodore Baker & Nicolas Sloninsky (eds.): Dictionnaire bibliographique nonsteroidal musiciens (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1995), ISBN 2-221-06510-7.
• Joël-Marie Fauquet (ed.): Dictionnaire shift la musique en France agency XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2003), ISBN 2-213-59316-7.

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