Pierre-Octave Ferroud
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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].
[edit] Primary works
- Andante cordial (1919/26)[1]
- Types (Vieux Beau - Bourgeoise de qualité - Businessman)(1922-1924) (recorded by Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre National de Lyon)[6]
- Foules (1922-1924) (recorded by Krivine)[6]
- 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)[7]
- Symphonie en la (1930) in three movements [1][7](recorded by Krivine)[6]
- Chirurgie vers. orchestrale (1930)[1](recorded by Krivine)[6]
- 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)[8]
- 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)
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j K.S. (2003).
- ^ a b c "Larousse Entry for Ferroud" (in French). http://www.larousse.fr/ref/musdico/Pierre-Octave-Ferroud_167594.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-02.[dead link]
- ^ "Pierre-Octave Ferroud dans l'Encyclopédie Universalis" (in French). http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/T010134/FERROUD_P_O.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- ^ Prokofiev; Robinson, Harlow, ed. (1998) Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev at Google Books. UPNE. page 126. ISBN 1555533477.
- ^ Schmidt, Carl B. The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue at Google Books. page 257.
- ^ a b c d "Krivine Discography". http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=857&c=3. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Naxos Ferroud Biography". http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Pierre_Octave_Ferroud/22846.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- K.S. (2003). "Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900-1936)". http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall/6119/museum/ferroud/english.html. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- Ferroud, Pierre-Octave (1927). Autour de Florent Schmitt. Paris: A. Durand et Fils. OCLC 5634016.
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