Durand/Plates

This is the page to list all plates issued by Durand. Previously these information and this table below were part of the main Durand page. To keep it clean and easy to read, this editor took the liberty to move the table and create this individual page for it. For more, please CIRCLE BACK.

Regular Issues

Note: The plate numbers preceded by "D. S. & Cie." were published 1870–1886, those with the prefix "D. S." from 1887–1891, those with the prefix "A. D. & F." or "D. & F." from 1891–ca. 1960 ("D. & Cie." plate numbers were also used in this period), and those with "D. & C." after 1960. Durand retained the plate number when a work was re-engraved but would update the prefix (D. S. & Cie. would be changed to D. & F.). Plate numbers 1 though approx. 1200 were taken over from the Flaxland catalogue from the start. If a work was merely reprinted from existing plates, the old prefix would often be replaced with the new one, but sometimes left untouched. Durand also issued a new plate number when a score was reproduced in a reduced, study score format, even when it is merely a photographic reduction. Dates printed on the score itself or confirmed by reliable sources such as a composer's catalog, the Hofmeister Monatsbericht (sometimes...), or Lesure's Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français appear in plain text, those found WorldCat or similar library listings are in parens, while dates implied only by the plate-number sequence are given in parens with a question mark. Warning and caveat! Hofmeister Monatsbericht sometimes- often- gives a date many years later than the actual first printing in France of a work. Use if possible the Bibliographie de la France instead.