One of the critics[8] was disappointed because she had been led to believe she would hear music by new composers, and got Camille Saint-Saëns, Vincent d'Indy, Jean Roger-Ducasse instead, with one work by young Louis Aubert.
The first "Séance de Musique moderne" in 1911 was reviewed by Jacques Ibert[9], the players included Ricardo Viñes (Gaspard de la Nuit), Alfred Cortot and Jacques Thibaud (Sonate for piano and violin by Gustave Samazeuilh), as well as a Trio by Edouard Lalo and a quartet by Saint-Saëns played by the Hayot String Quartet (active in France in 1895-1905).
This quartet included Maurice Hayot (first violin, 1862-1945, a teacher at the École normale de musique de Paris), Lucien André (who replaced Firmin Touche, second violin, Jean-Claude Touche's father[10]), Joseph Salmon (cello) and Frédéric Denayer (1878-1946, viola, one of Théophile Laforge's pupils who got First prize in 1897, and also played in Armand Parent [fr]'s Quatuor Parent [fr] and became alto solo of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.
[12] In 1924, Durand made a major donation of Claude Debussy's musical manuscripts to the library of the Conservatoire de Paris.
Durand was the owner of the manor house of Bel Ébat in Avon, the former hunting lodge of King Henry IV of France, not far from Fontainebleau.
"[17] The press confirmed Maurice Ravel's testimony: "The funeral of Mr. Jacques Durand, the well-known music publisher, was celebrated in the strictest privacy on the 26th of this year in Avon (Seine-et-Marne).