Abstract
Louis Laloy was a notable early-twentieth-century French music critic and scholar. A close friend of Claude Debussy, he wrote the composer's first French biography [End Page 95] (Claude Debussy [Paris: Les Bibliophiles fantaisistes, 1909; reprint, Paris: Aux Armes de France, 1944]), and he wrote astutely about many other composers as well, among them Paul Dukas, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, and Erik Satie. Proficient in eight languages (French, English, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, Latin, and Mandarin Chinese), Laloy was one of the first doctoral candidates in music history at the Sorbonne. In addition to Debussy, he numbered among his friends Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ricardo Viñes, and critics Romain Rolland and Jean Marnold, as well as others from the broader world of literature and the arts: André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, André Gide, Jacques Maritain, and Auguste Rodin.
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