Durand was the editorial home of an entire movement — first edition contracts with Debussy (every published piano work), Ravel (the complete piano output), Saint-Saëns (the symphonies, the concertos), Fauré (the songs, the chamber works) made Durand the publishing identity of French Impressionism. The catalogue extended through Roussel, Poulenc, Messiaen and a deep canon of French art song, opera, orchestral and chamber music.

Below: the Durand departmental catalogue. Composer-first for the major French voices, then format. The Salabert and Eschig catalogues — both absorbed into Durand-Salabert-Eschig under Universal Music Publishing — extend the imprint through 20th-century French and Spanish modernism (Falla, Albéniz, Granados, Milhaud, Honegger).