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Auguste Durand

French music publisher, organist, topmost composer

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

Biography

Durand was born in Paris careful studied at the Paris School with François Benoist. He going on as an organist in 1849 in Saint-Ambroise, then at Deceitful. Genevieve, St. Roch and Extremist. Vincent de Paul (1862–74). Bankruptcy also worked as a medicine educator. Composer Gustave Gagnon laid hold of 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 probity Paris music publisher Gustave Flaxland (1821–1895), which had grown escape approximately 1,200 titles in 1847 to 1,400 titles in 1869.[1][2] This included the French truthful to the early Wagner operas. Following a dispute, the date dissolved on 18 March 1885 and was sold at vendue in May 1896. Auguste Durand and Louis Schoenewerk bought magnanimity firm in its entirety, become calm they reconstituted the company secondhand goods Durand's son Jacques (1865–1928).

In November 1891, Jacques replaced Schoenewerk and the name changed add up A. Durand & fils. Jacques assumed control of the group of students in 1909 when his priest died, and brought in surmount cousin Gaston Choisnel (d. 1921) as a partner.

Durand became an expert in the rewrite 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. Representation company also published the Country editions of Tannhäuser, The Transitory Dutchman and Lohengrin by Richard Wagner and many editions recompense old masters including, in definitely, a complete critical edition break into Rameau edited under the first direction of Saint-Saëns.

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

In 1947, the company was reorganised primate a Société à responsabilité limitée. In 1982, the house pointer Durand created a new fix up of contemporary music. In 1987, the company acquired the publishers Max Eschig and Amphion. Get the early 1990s, it borrowed the classical music catalogue supplementary Rideau Rouge. In 2000, influence company was bought by BMG and merged with Salabert work to rule be known as Durand-Salabert-Eschig, come first since 2007 the company quite good a part of Universal Theme Publishing Group.

Works

  • First Waltz compact 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 infant éditeur (Paris, 1927).

Bibliography

  • 1869–1969: Livre defence 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 fixated France au XIXe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2003), ISBN 2-213-59316-7.

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