French composer and music critic. He was born on January 6 of 1900 in Chasselay (Lyon, France).

He started studying piano with his mother, a student of Félix Le Coupey and Antoine François Marmontel. In addition, he studied Natural Sciences at the University of Lyon. At the same time, he received harmony lessons from Edouard Commette. After the military service in Strasbourg, he returned to Lyon and studied counterpoint with Marie-Joseph Erb and Florent Schmit, advised by G. Ropartz. In 1924 he decided to devote himself entirely to composition during his stay in Paris. The Société des Concerts de Lyon had already performed, under the guidance of Georges-Martin, his "Sarabande" in 1921.

In Paris, he was responsible for Le Triton, a society that offered a large number of concerts between 1932 and 1939. He programmed works by Bartók, Dallapiccola, Hindemith, Honegger, Janá'ek, Martinu, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. The young French composers saw him as a role model.

Ferroud worked with the magazines "Musique et théâtre" and "Chantecler" as a music critic. In the latter, he wrote an article about "El retablo de maese Pedro" (1919-1923), a work by Manuel de Falla, who congratulated Ferroud on May 27 of 1928.

Musically influenced by Bartók, he was noticeable for producing his arrangement of Swedish folk songs choreographed by Jean Börlin "Le porcher" (1924), within the repertoire of the Ballets Suédois. As well as the premiere on March 21 of 1926 of "Foules", weeks later performed at the SIMC Festival in Zürich. He worked on the children's ballet "L'éventail de Jeanne" (1927), alongside composers such as Ravel, Milhaud, and Poulenc. He composed "Chirurgie", his only opera, which premiered in Monte Carlo in 1928. "Sinfonía en La" was considered his most important work, premiered on March 8 of 1931 by the Symphonic Orchestra of Paris. Alongside André Coeuroy and Serge Lifar, he presented the ballet "Jeunesse" at the Paris Opera in 1933, this being his last work. He died in a road accident on August 17 of 1936 in Debreczin (Hungary). Poulenc composed "Litanies à la Vierge Noire" in his memory.