Ferroud Pierre-Octave. Sonatine pour piano

Paris: Durand&Cie, 1928. — 20 p.In his compositions Ferroud returned again and again to the orchestra and his nuanced techniques of instrumentation won critical praise, even from sceptics. His early works, for example the Sarabande and Andante cordial, show a clear but conscious debt to French tradition and especially to Ravel, among others. From 1923 Ferroud lived in Paris and the first compositions of this period, Au Parc Monceau, Types and Foules, delight in descriptive writing. In the mid-1920s he shifted his aesthetic position towards classicisme, initially in his critical writing and subsequently in his compositions. His musical idiom became more linear, transparent and at hte same time formally complex.