Louis Laloy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Laloy

French writer, musicologist and sinologist

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1874

Place of Birth: Gray, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1944

Profession: writer, politician, translator, music critic, musicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.He is associated with many prominent artists and composers.
He was a friend and the first 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 (1683–1764) who was then rediscovered.