Louis Laloy

Louis Laloy was a French musicologist, writer and sinologist.
A Doctor of Letters, he became an eminent musicologist, music critic, co-founder of Le Mercure musical, teacher at the Sorbonne and at the Conservatoire [de Paris|Paris Conservatory], and Secretary General of the Paris Opera.
He is associated with many prominent artists and composers. He was a friend and the first French biographer of Claude Debussy and wrote books on his contemporaries Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, and Paul Dukas, as well as Jean-Philippe Rameau who was then rediscovered.