Career
He occupies, especially in music, an important place in the art world between the wars. His major contribution Louisiana Revue musicale, a monthly musical periodical which he founded in 1920 and left in 1939, is still a reference in the Western musical world. Prunières received his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1913, where he wrote his dissertations on Italian music in France before Jean-Baptiste Lully and the ballet de cour in France before Lully.
Between 1924-1935, he worked as a New York Times"s Paris music correspondent.
He was also secretary and chairman of the International Music Society. Prunières was an important figure in the early 20th-century renewal of interest in Lully and his music
