Intermediate Sheet Music from Editions Durand

It was Jules Écorcheville (1872–1915) who took the initiative in 1909 of organizing a unique commemoration of the centenary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). The musicologist suggested to seve...

On November 22, 1928, Ida Rubinstein’s ballet to the music of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro premiered at the Opéra Garnier in Paris: it was a resounding success. An orchestral version of the Boléro was soon...

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...

Born in 1961, Nicolas Bacri began comprehensive musical studies at a very early age: the piano, but also the technical disciplines of harmony and counterpoint, and finally, from 1979, composition with...

The Danse macabreis one of the most celebrated works of Camille Saint-Saëns and of the French symphonic repertoire in general. After the première on 24 January 1875, the work firmly established itself...

This anthology brings together 10 original works for flute and piano that reflect the elegance, sensitivity and charm but also the eclecticism of French music from the end of the 19th century into the...

The "serenade" (from the Italian serenata) was originally a light-hearted vocal piece accompanied by one or more instruments, meant to be played after nightfall. Very fashionable during the 18th centu...

The Danse macabreis one of the most celebrated works of Camille Saint-Saëns and of the French symphonic repertoire in general. After the première on 24 January 1875, the work firmly established itself...

This critical edition of the Trio is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series III, volume 1. Debussy's Piano Trio, his second surviving instrumental work, dates from late summer 18...

This critical edition of the Trio is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series III, volume 1. Debussy's Piano Trio, his second surviving instrumental work, dates from late summer 18...

Towards the end of his activity, Saint-Saëns came to prefer more streamlined sonorities, more subtle and refined textures, and became very interested in the sound of the harp. In 1893, he composed Fan...

George Frideric Handel’s Concerto for harp op. 4 no. 6 (HWV 294) was first performed as part of the première of the ode Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) on 19 February 1736, probably on a Welsh triple harp,...

Marcel Grandjany (1891–1975) was a French-born American harpist and composer. He composed his Automne for solo harp during his Parisian period. The piece, published by Durand in 1927, was probably wri...

[...] this piece is, without a doubt, one of the sweetest I have ever written. As this letter that Claude Debussy wrote to Durand, his publisher, indicates, the composer held his Rhapsodie for clarine...

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...

A new engraving of the transcription for violin and piano of the famous piece Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux. Introduction by Edmond Lemaitre in French and English.

Tarab premiered by David Grimal in le Volcan, Scène Nationale du Havre, on April 23rd 2010. Born in 1948 in Rome, Philippe Hersant studied music at the Paris Conservatory, notably in the composition c...

Perpétuel, Beyrouth-Jérusalem and Arminia are collected in the present edition for violin solo. Bechara El-Khoury, the Franco-Lebanese composer and poet was born in Beirut on March 18, 1957. His arti...

The 'Menuet', the fifth movement of the piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914 17), arranged for violin and piano by the American violinist of Polish origin Samuel Dushkin (1891 1976), famous for hi...

It was in 1947, two years after winning the celebrated Grand Prix de Rome, that the French composer Claude Pascal (1921–2017) composed the Sonatine for alto saxophone and piano, his first work for Ado...

Soon after its composition in 1886, Camille Saint-Saëns asked Auguste Durand that Le Carnaval des animaux, which he thought of as a parodic fantasia, should only appear in print posthumously. He proba...