Pierre-Octave Ferroud

Pierre-Octave Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936)[1] was a French composer of classical music.

He 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[2], and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin Witkowski[3]. He then travelled to Paris in 1923, where he later founded with Henry Barraud, Jean Rivier and Emmanuel Bondeville the chamber ensemble Triton in 1932.[2]

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.[4]

He wrote a biographical work about his mentor Florent Schmitt (who 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.[2] On hearing of Ferroud's death, Francis Poulenc wrote to Georges Auric of his distress[5].

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j K.S. (2003).
  2. ^ a b c "Larousse Entry for Ferroud" (in French). http://www.larousse.fr/ref/musdico/Pierre-Octave-Ferroud_167594.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
  3. ^ "Pierre-Octave Ferroud dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis" (in French). http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/T010134/FERROUD_P_O.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-02. 
  4. ^ Prokofiev; Robinson, Harlow, ed. (1998) Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev at Google Books. UPNE. page 126. ISBN 1555533477.
  5. ^ Schmidt, Carl B. The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue at Google Books. page 257.
  6. ^ a b c d "Krivine Discography". http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=857&c=3. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 
  7. ^ a b "Marco Polo Recording Description with Track Listing, includes Serenade for Orchestra and Symphony in A". 1998. OCLC 163139975. http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.225029. Retrieved 2009-01-26. 
  8. ^ "Naxos Ferroud Biography". http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Pierre_Octave_Ferroud/22846.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-26.