Pierre-Octave Calixte Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936)K.S. (2003). was a French composer of classical music.

Life

Ferroud was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg (for military service from 1920-2) where he studied with

Guy Ropartz Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor ...

, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of

Florent Schmitt Florent Schmitt (; 28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are ''La tragédie de Salome'' and ''Psaume XLVII'' (Psalm 47). He has been described as "one of th ...

, and a pupil of

Georges Martin Witkowski Georges Martin Witkowski (6 January 1867 – 12 August 1943) was a French conductor and composer. Career Born in Mostaganem, French Algeria, Witkowski started out in the army, becoming a cavalry officer and meeting Louis Vierne during that time ...

. He then travelled to Paris in 1923, settling as a composer and music critic. In 1932, together with Henry Barraud,

Jean Rivier Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987) was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style. The son of Henri Rivier, a co-inventor of Armenian paper, he composed over two hundred works, including mus ...

and

Emmanuel Bondeville Emmanuel Bondeville was a French composer and music administrator, born 29 October 1898 in Rouen, and died 26 November 1987 in Paris. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Biography As a young man he was organist at the church of Sain ...

, he founded ''Triton'', a contemporary music society. In a letter to Boris Asafiev,

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, ...

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

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, in

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. On hearing of Ferroud's death, Francis Poulenc wrote to

Georges Auric Georges Auric (; 15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. He was considered one of ''Les Six'', a group of artists informally associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie. Before he turned 20 he ...

of his distress.Schmidt, Carl B. . page 257.

Selected compositions

*Andante cordial (1919/26) *Types (Vieux Beau - Bourgeoise de qualité - Businessman)(1922-1924) (recorded by

Emmanuel Krivine Emmanuel Krivine (born 7 May 1947, Grenoble) is a French conductor. Biography The son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, Krivine studied the violin as a youth. He was a winner of the ''Premier Prix'' at the Paris Conservatoire, at age 16. ...

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 Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

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) (

) *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)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferroud, Pierre-Octave 1900 births 1936 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century French composers 20th-century French male musicians French ballet composers French male classical composers People from Rhône (department) Road incident deaths in Hungary