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 el la mineur 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)
References
- ^ K.S. (2003).
- "Larousse Entry for Ferroud" (in French). Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- "Pierre-Octave Ferroud dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis" (in French). December 2000. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- Slonimsky, Nicholas; Kuhn, Laura, eds. (2001). Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians (Centennial ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-865525-7.
- Duchesnau, Michel, La societe Triton, Paris: Sorbonne 1997
- Lazzaro, Federico (March 12, 2020). "1932. La Société Triton et l'"École de Paris"". Nouvelle histoire de la musique en France (1870-1950) (in French).
- Prokofiev; Robinson, Harlow, ed. (1998) Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev at Google Books. UPNE. page 126. ISBN 1-55553-347-7.
- Schmidt, Carl B. The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue at Google Books. page 257.
- ^ "Krivine Discography". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "Marco Polo Recording Description with Track Listing, includes Serenade for Orchestra and Symphony in A". 1998. OCLC 163139975. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- "Naxos Ferroud Biography". Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- K.S. (2003). "Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900-1936)". Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- Ferroud, Pierre-Octave (1927). Autour de Florent Schmitt. Paris: A. Durand et Fils. OCLC 5634016.