French firm of music publishers. It was founded in 1869 by Marie Auguste Durand (1830-1909) in partnership with Schoenewerk, was reorganized in 1891 as A. Durand & Fils, and in 1909 by Jacques Durand (1865-1928) as Durand & Cie; both Auguste and his son Jacques were composers. In 1869 the firm bought the Flaxland catalogue of c 1200 publications; to this it added the collected works of Rameau (ed.Saint-Saëns), Schumann's piano works (ed.Fauré), Mendelssohn's piano works (ed.Ravel) and other music for its enormous ‘Edition classique’. Meanwhile promoting contemporary French music, the Durands became the original publishers of almost all the works of Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Ravel, most of those of Fauré and Dukas and many by Franck, Falla, Milhaud and Poulenc.
