title: Pierre-Octave Ferroud
text: # 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)
  