Louis Laloy

Louis Laloy ( Gray, 18 February 1874 – Dole, 4 March 1944 ) was a French musicologist, writer and sinologist. A Doctor of Letters (he spoke French, English, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Greek and Chinese), he became an eminent musicologist, music critic, co-founder of Le Mercure musical, teacher at the Sorbonne and at the Paris Conservatory, and Secretary General of the Paris Opera.[1]

He is associated with many prominent artists and composers. He was a friend and the first biographer of Claude Debussy[2] and wrote books on his contemporaries Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, and Paul Dukas, as well as Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) who was then rediscovered.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Larousse, Éditions. "Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne - Louis Laloy". www.larousse.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  2. ↑ Biography of Debussy, on Google Books.
  3. ↑ Biography of Rameau, on Google Books.
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