Pierre-Octave Calixte Ferroud (6 January 1900 – 17 August 1936)[1] was a French composer of classical music.
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.
[4] In 1932, together with Henry Barraud, Jean Rivier and Emmanuel Bondeville, he founded Triton, a contemporary music society.
Ferroud was a regular contributor of musical reviews and essays to the journal Paris-Soir.
On hearing of Ferroud's death, Francis Poulenc wrote to Georges Auric of his distress.