Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 composer of classical music.

He was born in Chasselay, Rhône

Chasselay, Rhône

Chasselay is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. The village is located between Lyon and Villefranche-sur-Saône. It is a relatively rural community without a train station.-References:*...

, near Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 (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

Florent Schmitt

Florent Schmitt was a French composer.-Early life:A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. Subsequently he entered the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois,...

, and a pupil of Georges Martin Witkowski

Georges Martin Witkowski

Georges Martin Witkowski was a French conductor and composer of classical music.Witkowski started out in the army, becoming a cavalry officer and meeting Louis Vierne during that time...

. He then travelled to Paris in 1923, where he later founded with Henry Barraud

Henry Barraud

Henry Barraud was a French composer.He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods...

, Jean Rivier

Jean Rivier

Jean Rivier was a French composer of classical music.He composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments....

 and Emmanuel Bondeville

Emmanuel Bondeville

Emmanuel Bondeville was a French composer and music administrator, born 29 October 1898 in Rouen, and died 26 November 1987 in Paris.- Biography :...

 the chamber ensemble Triton in 1932.

In a letter to Boris Asafiev

Boris Asafiev

Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology.Asafyev had a strong influence on Soviet music. His compositions include ballets, operas, symphonies, concertos and chamber music...

, Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 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 (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

Paris-Soir

Paris-Soir was a large-circulation daily newspaper in Paris, France from 1923-1944.Its first issue came out in 4 October 1923. After June 11, 1940, the same publisher, Jean Prouvost, continued its publication in Vichy France: Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Marseille, and Vichy while in occupied Paris, it...

.

He died in 1936, when he was decapitated in a road accident in Debrecen

Debrecen

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, in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. On hearing of Ferroud's death, Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...

 wrote to Georges Auric

Georges Auric

Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum...

 of his distress.

Primary works

• Andante cordial (1919/26)
• Types (Vieux Beau - Bourgeoise de qualité - Businessman)(1922-1924) (recorded by Emmanuel Krivine
  Emmanuel Krivine
  Emmanuel Krivine is a French conductor, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father. He studied the violin as a youth and was a prize-winner at the Paris Conservatoire. He later studied at the Queen Elisabeth School in Brussels....
  
   and the Orchestre National de Lyon)
• Foules (1922-1924) (recorded by Krivine)
• Sérénade (piano and orchestra) (1927)
• Chirugie 1927 (opéra comique
  Opéra comique
  Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...
  
  )
• Jeunesse (1929-1933) (ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
   in two scenes)
• Chansons de Fous
• Sonnerie pour le Hérault (1935)
• Le Porcher (1924) (ballet)
• March for L'éventail de Jeanne
  L'Éventail de Jeanne
  L'éventail de Jeanne is a children's ballet choreographed in 1927 by Alice Bourgat and Yvonne Franck.The music is a collaborative work by ten French composers, each of whom contributed a stylised dance in classic form:...
  
   (collaborative work by Auric, Ferroud and others) (1927) (ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
  )
• 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)
• Tables (1931)
• A contre-coeur (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)