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    Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer born in 1900 near Lyons. He studied with Edouard Commette and Guy Ropartz. In Paris in the 1920s, he helped establish Le Triton, an important society for contemporary music. Ferroud composed for the Ballets Suédois and collaborated on ballets. His only opera was Chirurgie. Ferroud's musical style was sometimes astringent and sometimes lyrical, with a strong contrapuntal sense and bold harmonies influenced by Bartók. His most important orchestral work was the Symphony in A. Ferroud died in a car crash in 1936.

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    Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer born in 1900 near Lyons. He studied with Edouard Commette and Guy Ropartz. In Paris in the 1920s, he helped establish Le Triton, an important society for contemporary music. Ferroud composed for the Ballets Suédois and collaborated on ballets. His only opera was Chirurgie. Ferroud's musical style was sometimes astringent and sometimes lyrical, with a strong contrapuntal sense and bold harmonies influenced by Bartók. His most important orchestral work was the Symphony in A. Ferroud died in a car crash in 1936.

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    Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer born in 1900 near Lyons. He studied with Edouard Commette and Guy Ropartz. In Paris in the 1920s, he helped establish Le Triton, an important society for contemporary music. Ferroud composed for the Ballets Suédois and collaborated on ballets. His only opera was Chirurgie. Ferroud's musical style was sometimes astringent and sometimes lyrical, with a strong contrapuntal sense and bold harmonies influenced by Bartók. His most important orchestral work was the Symphony in A. Ferroud died in a car crash in 1936.

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    Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

    http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/09547?
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    11/12/2013

    (b Chasselay, nr Lyons, 6 Jan 1900; d Debrecen, 17 Aug 1936). French composer. He


    studied natural sciences at the University of Lyons and the organ with Edouard Commette.
    From 1920 to 1922 he studied with Guy Ropartz in Strasbourg; after returning to Lyons he
    became a pupil and confidant of Florent Schmitt. He took an active part in the musical life
    of the city, notably through the Salon d'Automne Lyonnais, which he founded for the
    performance of new music. In 1923 he moved to Paris where he was largely responsible for
    the establishment of Le Triton, a society which gave a remarkable series of concerts (1932
    9) of contemporary music, including works by Bartk, Dallapiccola, Hindemith, Honegger,
    Janek, Martin, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Stravinsky; it soon
    established itself as an important forum for young French composers. Ferroud also worked
    as a music critic for the journals Musique et thtre and Chantecler. His death in a car crash
    deeply affected his friend Poulenc, who was moved to compose the Litanies la Vierge
    noire as a memorial.

    For the Ballets Sudois, he arranged some Swedish folk tunes for the score of Jean Brlin's
    Le porcher (1924). Foules, an orchestral work depicting the rapid movement of a city
    crowd, was first performed on 21 March 1926 and again a few weeks later at the ISCM
    Festival in Zrich. With Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Roussel and others, he collaborated on
    the charming ballet L'ventail de Jeanne (1927); his only opera, Chirurgie (a comic tale
    about a toothache, based on a story by Chekhov), was first performed in Monte Carlo the
    following year. Ferroud's last stage work was the ballet Jeunesse, a collaboration with
    Andr Coeuroy and Serge Lifar, given its premire at the Paris Opra in 1933. His musical
    style was sometimes astringent, sometimes lyrical, but usually with a strong contrapuntal
    sense and a liking for bold harmonies. He was influenced in particular by Bartk. His most
    important orchestral work was the Symphony in A, first performed by Monteux with the
    Orchestre Symphonique de Paris on 8 March 1931.

    Bibliography

    R. Dumesnil: Portraits de musiciens franais (Paris, 1938)

    C. Rostand: L'oeuvre de Pierre-Octave Ferroud (Paris, 1958)

    R. Melkis-Bihler: Pierre-Octave Ferroud (19001936): ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der


    Musik in Frankreich (Frankfurt, 1995)

    M. Duchesneau: L'avant-garde musicale Paris de 1871 1939 (Sprimont, 1997), 13342,


    3318

    Claude Rostand/R

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