Jacques Durand

Marie-Jacques Massacrié-Durand was a French music publisher and composer, sometimes under the pseudonym J. Samm. The family’s publishing house, Éditions Durand, published works by many of Durand’s contemporaries, including Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Jacques Durand (publisher).

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The name Jacques Durand does not appear in the provided passages. There are entries for Auguste-Frédéric Durand, Émile Durand, and Marie-Auguste Durand, as well as a mention of a “Durand” as a teacher of Louis Diemer and Arthur Goring Thomas, but no “Jacques Durand.”