Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915-1925

DEBORAH MAWER is Emeritus Professor of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds RACHEL MOORE is Lecturer in Music, Cardiff University. GRAHAM SADLER is Professor of Musicology, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

• Introduction PART I. DURAND AND HIS ÉDITION CLASSIQUE1 The Historical Evolution of the Édition ClassiqueGraham Sadler2 Charting the Édition: Production Data, Musical Contents and Relationships Deborah Mawer and Graham Sadler PART II. COMPOSER-EDITOR CASE STUDIES3 'De-Germanising' Music Publishing: Dukas's Beethoven in Wartime FranceRachel Moore4 Mozart as 'Classic' in Early Twentieth-Century France: The Case of Saint-Saëns's Mozart EditionsBarbara L. Kelly5 Making Mendelssohn (More) French: Ravel and Six pièces enfantinesDeborah Mawer6 Accenting Bach: An Editorial Trajectory from Fauré to Roger-DucasseDeborah Mawer7 Repackaging the Old Masters: The Place of Early Keyboard Music in the Édition ClassiqueGraham Sadler8 Debussy's Homage to Chopin: as Editor, Performer and Composer Appendix: Debussy-Chopin entries in the Livres de cotage (1919-90s)Barbara L. Kelly PART III. BEYOND EDITING: PEDAGOGY, PERFORMANCE, COMPOSITION9 The Édition Classique in Action: Pedagogy and PerformanceRachel Moore and Barbara L. Kelly10 The Édition Classique and French Neoclassicism: L'École moderne as ExemplarAppendix: Alphabetical tabulation of composers and piecesDeborah Mawer Afterword Select BibliographyIndex

The work - of exceptional erudition, drawing on fascinating sources - offers an unprecedented perspective on a music publisher, going well beyond the current state of the art.L'ouvrage, d'un niveau d'érudition exceptionnel, explorant des sources passionnantes, offre une vue sans précédent sur un éditeur de musique, allant bien audelà de l'état de l'art.