Pierre-Octave Ferroud Explained
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)
- 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 [9] (recorded by Krivine)[10]
- Chirurgie vers. orchestrale (1930)(recorded by Krivine)[10]
- 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)[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
- Web site: Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900-1936). 2008-12-02. 2003. K.S..
- Book: Ferroud, Pierre-Octave. Autour de Florent Schmitt. 1927. Paris. A. Durand et Fils. 5634016.
Notes and References
- K.S. (2003).
- Web site: Larousse Entry for Ferroud. fr. 2008-12-02.
- Web site: fr. Pierre-Octave Ferroud dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis. December 2000 . 2008-12-02.
- Book: Slonimsky . Nicholas . Kuhn . Laura . Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians . 2001 . Schirmer Books . 0-02-865525-7 . Centennial . New York.
- 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). fr.
- Prokofiev; Robinson, Harlow, ed. (1998) . UPNE. page 126. .
- Schmidt, Carl B. . page 257.
- Web site: Marco Polo Recording Description with Track Listing, includes Serenade for Orchestra and Symphony in A. 1998. 163139975. 2009-01-26.
- Web site: Krivine Discography. 2009-01-26.
- Web site: Naxos Ferroud Biography. 2009-01-26.