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Marie-Auguste Massacrié-Durand (Paris, 18 July 1830-31 May 1909) was a French organist, publisher, and composer of classical music.
Durand studied at Paris Conservatoire with Cesar Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns. He started as an organist in 1849 in Saint-Ambroise, then at St. Genevieve, St. Roch and St. Vincent de Paul (1862-1874).
Together with Louis Schönewerk and other sponsors, Durand founded the company Durand-Schönewerk & Cie in December 1869 and acquired the important catalogue of Paris music publisher Gustave-Alexandre Flaxland (1821–1895), which had grown from approximately 1200 titles in 1847 to 1400 titles in 1869.[1][2] This included the French rights for the early Wagner operas.
Following a dispute with the partners, the company dissolved on 18 March 1885 and was sold on auction in May 1896. Auguste Durand and Schönewerk bought the fund in its entirety and they reconstituted the company with his son Jacques Durand (1865–1928).
In November 1891, Jacques replaced Schönewerk and the name changed to A. Durand & son. Jacques assumed control of the company in 1909 when his father died, and brought in his cousin Gaston Choisnel (d. 1921) as a partner.
In 1947 the company was reorganised as a Société à responsabilité limitée.
Durand became an expert in the publication of works by French composers such as Victorin de Joncières, Edouard Lalo, Jules Massenet, Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Paul Dukas, etc.
It also publishes the French editions of Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin by Richard Wagner and many editions of old masters including, in particular, a complete critical edition of Rameau performed under the initial direction of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Between 1910 and 1913, Auguste and his son Jacques organised concerts to raise awareness of new music. In 1914, they publish under the title: Édition classique Durand & fils the important works for piano of the nineteenth century, the music of Chopin edited by Debussy, of Mendelssohn by Maurice Ravel and of Gabriel Fauré by Schumann.
In 1982, the Durand house recreates a new catalog of contemporary music. In 1987, she acquired the publishers Max Eschig and Amphion. In the early 1990s, it acquired the classical music catalog of Rideau Rouge.
In 2000 the company was bought by BMG and merged with Salabert to be known as Durand-Salabert-Eschig.