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French composer (1900–1936)
Pierre-Octave Calixte Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936)
[1] 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 ,
[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, settling as a composer and music critic.
[4] In 1932, together with
Henry Barraud ,
Jean Rivier and
Emmanuel Bondeville , he founded Triton , a contemporary music society.
[5]
[6]
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.
[7]
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.
[8]
Selected compositions
Andante cordial (1919/26)
[1]
Types (Vieux Beau - Bourgeoise de qualité - Businessman)(1922-1924) (recorded by
Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre National de Lyon)
[9]
Foules (1922-1924) (recorded by Krivine)
[9]
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 )
[1]
Monte-Carlo (1928)
Sérénade pour orchestre (1927) (Berceuse; Pavane; Spiritual)
[10]
Symphonie en la (1930) in three movements
[1]
[10] (recorded by Krivine)
[9]
Chirurgie vers. orchestrale (1930)
[1] (recorded by Krivine)
[9]
Trois pièces pour flûte seule (1920-1921)
[1]
Spiritual (guitar) (1926)
[1]
Sonate pour violon et piano (1929)
[1]
Sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1930)
[1]
Trio à vent en mi (1933)
[1]
Quatuor à cordes (1932-1936)
[11]
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
^
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j K.S. (2003).
^
"Larousse Entry for Ferroud" (in French). Retrieved 2008-12-02 . [
dead link ]
^
"Pierre-Octave Ferroud dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis" (in French). 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.
^
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"Krivine Discography" . Retrieved 2009-01-26 .
^
a
b
"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 .
External links
International National Artists Other