Éditions Durand

Éditions Durand are a music publishing company of French origin, among the most important in the field of classical music, which includes three previously independent publishers: The Éditions Durand, a family business from 1869 to 1982, had as successive directors from its foundation on December 30, 1869 to 2000: The historic headquarters of Éditions Durand was located at 4 Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

[1] In addition, the firm had a warehouse at 1 avenue de la Marne in Asnières-sur-Seine, where the archives of the publishing house were kept.

The catalogue of Éditions Durand includes works of the composers Louis Aubert, Alfred Bachelet, Ermend Bonnal, Henri Büsser, André Caplet, Claude Debussy, Claude Delvincourt, Paul Dukas, Maurice Duruflé, Gabriel Fauré, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Jacques Ibert, Vincent d'Indy, André Jolivet, Victorin de Joncières, Édouard Lalo, Jules Massenet, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Jean Roger-Ducasse, Joseph-Guy Ropartz, Albert Roussel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gustave Samazeuilh, Florent Schmitt, Pierre Vellones [fr], Charles-Marie Widor.

Since the 1980s, Gilbert Amy, Nicolas Bacri, Claude Ballif, Édith Canat de Chizy, Renaud Gagneux, Philippe Hersant, François-Bernard Mâche, Philippe Manoury, Yan Maresz [fr], Laurent Petitgirard have been among the composers included in the catalogue.

In addition to music publishing, the firm published a collection of theoretical works, written by Jacques Durand and others: (Éléments d’harmonie), Ernest Guiraud (Traité pratique d'instrumentation), Vincent d'Indy (Cours de composition musicale) written in collaboration with Auguste Sérieyx, Léon Roques (Principes théoriques et pratiques de la transposition).