Pierre Octave Ferroud

Pierre Octave Ferroud ( born January 6, 1900 in Chasselay (Rhône ); † August 17, 1936 in Debrecen in Hungary) was a French composer, concert organizer and music critic.

After studying chemistry and physics, he joined as a student of Edouard Commette and Georges Martin Witkowski in the Music Conservatory of Lyon. After military service in Alsace, he met Guy Ropartz and Florent Schmitt. Ferroud then turned to organizing concerts to bring new performed contemporary works. Around 1920, he composed his own works first.

In 1923 he was music critic for the newspaper Paris - Soir evening. In brilliant Paris of the roaring twenties he associated with the musicians of the Groupe des Six, Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc and Igor Stravinski and discovered on his travels among others, the works of Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith.

Ferroud founded in 1932, the " Société de Musique de Chambre Le Triton", which played an important role in the diffusion of contemporary music and made known so far rarely played in France works by foreign composers.

He died at the age of 36 on a trip to Hungary by a car accident.

Source

• Pierre Octave Ferroud in " La Media Library " (in French)

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• French composer
• Organizer ( music)
• Born 1900
• Died in 1936
• Man