Pierre-Octave Ferroud
# Pierre-Octave Ferroud

Pierre-Octave Calixte Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936) was a French composer of classical music.

## Life

Ferroud was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg (for military service from 1920-2) where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin Witkowski. He then travelled to Paris in 1923, settling as a composer and music critic. In 1932, together with Henry Barraud, Jean Rivier and Emmanuel Bondeville, he founded Triton, a contemporary music society.

In a letter to Boris Asafiev, Sergei Prokofiev described his encounter with Ferroud, praised the Symphony in A and suggested that Asafiev might have a look at it. Ferroud's opera, he reported, impressed him much less.

He wrote a biographical work about his mentor Florent Schmitt (whom he was, nevertheless, to pre-decease - Schmitt died 31 years after Autour de Florent Schmitt was published, in 1958.)

Ferroud was a regular contributor of musical reviews and essays to the journal Paris-Soir.

He died in 1936, when he was decapitated in a road accident in Debrecen, in Hungary. On hearing of Ferroud's death, Francis Poulenc wrote to Georges Auric of his distress.

## Selected compositions

* Andante cordial (1919/26)
* Types (Vieux Beau - Bourgeoise de qualité - Businessman)(1922-1924) (recorded by Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre National de Lyon)
* Foules (1922-1924) (recorded by Krivine)
* Sérénade (piano and orchestra) (1927)
* Chirugie 1927 (opéra comique)
* Jeunesse (1929-1933) (ballet in two scenes)
* Chansons de Fous
* Sonnerie pour le Hérault (1935)
* Le Porcher (1924) (ballet)
* March for L'éventail de Jeanne (collaborative work by Auric, Ferroud and others) (1927) (ballet)
* Monte-Carlo (1928)
* Sérénade pour orchestre (1927) (Berceuse; Pavane; Spiritual)
* Symphonie en la (1930) in three movements(recorded by Krivine)
* Chirurgie vers. orchestrale (1930)(recorded by Krivine)
* Trois pièces pour flûte seule (1920-1921)
* Spiritual (guitar) (1926)
* Sonate pour violon et piano (1929)
* Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1930)
* Trio à vent en mi (1933)
* Quatuor à cordes (1932-1936)
* Sarabande (1920/1926)
* Au parc Monceau (1921-1925)
* Sarabande pour piano (1920)
* Sarabande pour orchestre (1920-1926)
* Sonatine en ut dièse (in C♯) (1928)
* Fables (1931)
* A contre-cœur (1922-1925)
* Cinq poèmes de P.J. Toulet (1927)
* Cinq poèmes de P. Valéry (1929)
* Trois chansons de J. Supervielle (1932)
* Trois poèmes intimes de Goethe (1932)
