Intermediate Sheet Music from Editions Durand

For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on my tomb: 'Here lies Francis Poulenc, musician to Apollinaire and Éluard': that really would be my finest claim to fame, ' t...

For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on my tomb: 'Here lies Francis Poulenc, musician to Apollinaire and Éluard': that really would be my finest claim to fame, ' t...

La Courte Paille was the last vocal music Poulenc composed on seven poems of Belgian poet Maurice Carême. At Poulenc’s request Carême titled the cycle, choosing La Courte Paille (The Short Straw), whi...

Poulenc composed this valse chantée as incidental music for Anouilh’s play Léocadia. Within the play, the song is described as a pseudo Viennese waltz and functions as a leitmotif. Sung by Yvonne Prin...

Musique vocale française' is a series designed for students, teachers and professional singers. The present edition includes a selection of Maurice Ravel's best-known songs both in the original key or...

Musique vocale française' is a series designed for students, teachers and professional singers. The present edition includes a selection of Maurice Ravel's best-known songs both in the original key or...

The melodies of MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output, from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE D`AIMER (1893), written during his student years at the Pa...

A selection of 26 pieces by the Spanish guitarist Fernando Sor, considered the most important composer of guitar music in the early nineteenth-century. In this publication, Max Eschig continues the di...

The Grand Solo pour la guitare ou la lyre by Fernando Sor (1778 1839) is one of this Catalan composer's best-known and most frequently performed works for the guitar. Since its very first edition (181...

Mauro Giuliani is considered today to have been the most important guitarist-composer of the early nineteenth century. Not only was Giuliani the foremost player of his day: his fame reached far beyond...

The Sonatina canonica for two guitars, opus 196, by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 1968) was composed in 1961 for the legendary guitar duo formed by Ida Presti (1924 1967) and Alexandre Lagoya (1929...

The legendary Genovese violinist Niccolò Paganini (Genoa, 27 October 1782 Nice, 27 May 1840) was probably the only great composer of the past to show a constant interest in the guitar and, although he...

Musique française is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic c...

The present edition of Voiles is an excerpt from Préludes volume I. The musical text is taken from the critical edition Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy [Complete Works of Claude Debussy] (Series I,...

This critical edition of Ondine is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series I, volume 5.

This critical edition of the Petite Suite is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series I, volume 9. The titles of the movements of the Petite Suite, 'Cortège' and 'Ballet', evoke th...

Ständchen ist eines der berühmtesten Schubert-Lieder. Nach dieser Liebeserklärung in Form einer Serenade zu einem Text von Ludwig Rellstab entstanden zahlreiche Transkriptionen und Adaptationen. Eine...

Mélancolie is one of the longest works Poulenc ever wrote for piano, and today can be counted among the composer’s best-known. In this piece, dedicated to Raymond Destouches, his companion at the time...

Les Barricades mystérieuses by François Couperin (1668-1733) occupies a special place at the heart of the repertoire of French harpsichordists. The title is enigmatic, and it is a challenge. Couperin...

A journey through 10 of the most iconic pieces found in the prestigious catalogues of Max Eschig, Durand and Salabert. The pieces are organised in order of playing difficulty. An indispensable edition...

The Danse macabre is the third symphonic poem in orchestral version composed by Saint-Saens in early 1875. Six months after finishing the orchestral score, the composer completed the two-piano transcr...