Pierre-Octave Ferroud


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Sheet music for Ferroud



[details ←] 3 Pieces for Flute Solo Flute,
[details ←] Fables Piano,
[details ←] Trio in E Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe,
[details ←] Trio in E Oboe, clarinet, bassoon Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe,
[details ←] Prelude et Forlane Piano,
[details ←] Spiritual

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Born: 6 January 1900 — Chasseley (near Lyon) — France
Died: 17 August 1936 — Debrecen — Hungary
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Life

French composer and prominent advocate of modern music in France.

He was a pupil of Guy Ropartz and Florent Schmitt. He served as a Paris music critic; his talent for orchestration was especially notable.

He died in a motoring accident in Hungary.

References

  1. S.A.M Bottenheim, Prisma Encyclopedie der Muziek, Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1957.
  2. Percy A. Scholes, John Owen Ward, The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed., Oxford University Press, London, 1974.
  3. Th. Willemze, Componistenlexicon, Het Spectrum, Utrecht 1981.

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