Laloy, Louis
Laloy, Louis
Laloy, Louis, French musicologist and music critic; b. Grey, Haute-Saône, Feb. 18, 1874; d. Dole, March 3, 1944. He settled in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1893; agrégé des lettres, 1896; docteur ès lettres, 1904, with the diss. Aristoxène de Tarente et la musique de l’antiquité); also studied with Bordes, Breéille, and d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum (1899–1905). He was co-founder (1901) of the Revue d’Histoire et de Critique Musicale, and in 1905 he founded, with J. Marnold, the Mercure Musical. He also contributed articles to Revue de Paris, Grande Revue, Mercure de France, and Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He was prof, of music history at the Paris Cons. (1936–41).
Writings
Jean Philippe Rameau (Paris, 1908; 3rd ed., 1919); Claude Debussy (Paris, 1909; 2nd ed., 1944); La Musique chinoise (Paris, 1910); The Future of Music (London, 1910); La Musique retrouvée, 1902-1927 (Paris, 1928); Une Heure de musique avec Beethoven (Paris, 1930); Comment écouter la musique (Paris, 1942).
Bibliography
D. Priest, L. L. (1874-1944) on Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky (Brookfield, Vt., 1999).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire