Vuillermoz was a fellow student of Ravel in Fauré's composition class, and remained friends with him throughout his life. He went on to become a music critic, working for the newspaper Le Temps for a time. He also organised the first performance of Ma mère l'oye in April 1910.
Vuillermoz wrote a number of articles about Ravel, and after the latter's death he contributed a substantial review of the composer's work to the memorial volume published by some of his friends in 1939, Maurice Ravel par quelques-uns de ses familiers (Colette, et al. [1939]).
Vuillermoz was also one of the first to engage in serious film criticism, and to recognise the cinema as an independant art. From late 1916, he wrote a regular film review column in Le Temps, and became a contributor to other film journals in the 1920s, such as Cinémagazine and Cinéa. In 1924 he was a member of a commission which organised the first important exhibition on film at the Musée Galliera, "L'Exposition de l'art dans le cinéma français".
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