Contents: Introduction: Louis Laloy and the Paris music scene; On Debussy: Laloy’s friendship with Debussy; Early influences on Debussy; The Légion d’Honneur; Genesis and first performances of Pelléas et Mélisande; ‘Claude Debussy. Simplicity in music’; ‘Remarks on Debussy’; Debussy’s compositional style; ‘Claude Debussy and Debussyism’; ‘Claude Debussy’s works for the theatre’; Debussy and Satie; Advice on playing Debussy’s music; After Debussy’s death; ‘The Debussy monument’; ‘Recollection’; La Damoiselle élue; Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire; Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune; Nocturnes; Pelléas et Mélisande; La mer; Images II; Children’s corner and Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans; Trois ballades de François Villon; Ibéria; Rondes de printemps; Le martyre de saint Sébastien; Various piano works; Ode à la France; On Ravel: Ravel and the Prix de Rome in 1905; Ravel’s works for music threatre; Shéhérazade; Histoires naturelles; Rapsodie espagnole; Gaspard de la nuit; L’heure espagnole; Daphnis et Chloé; Adélaïde and L’enfant et les sortilèges; On Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Le rossignol; Le chant du rossignol; From Pulcinella to Œdipus rex; Mavra; Les noces; Various works from the 1920s; Œdipus rex and Jeu de cartes and the suite from L’Oiseau de feu; Perséphone; Appendices: Personalia; Chronological list of compositions by Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky; Bibliography; Index.