Louis Laloy (Gray, 18 February 1874 –Dole, 4 March 1944)[1] was a Frenchmusicologist, writer andsinologist.ADoctor of Letters (he spoke French, English, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Greek and Chinese), he became an eminent musicologist, music critic, co-founder ofLe Mercure musical, teacher at theSorbonne and at theParis Conservatory, and Secretary General of theParis Opera.[2]
He is associated with many prominent artists and composers. He was a friend and (after the English book by Louise Liebich) the first French biographer ofClaude Debussy[3] and wrote books on his contemporariesMaurice Ravel,Igor Stravinsky,Erik Satie, andPaul Dukas, as well asJean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) who was then rediscovered.[4]
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