Fernande Peyrot

Fernande Peyrot (1888-1978) was a Swiss composer, teacher and choral conductor from Geneva. She studied with Ernest Bloch and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, later receiving guidance from André Gedalge and Paul Dukas in Paris. Her catalogue includes choral and orchestral music, chamber works, songs and music for the theatre. She taught at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and maintained a musical language rooted in tonality while exploring freely contrasting harmonic colours.