Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert ( Lucien Lambert Jr .; born January 5, 1858 in Paris , † January 21, 1945 in Porto , Portugal) was a French composer and pianist of African American origin.
Lambert was tutored by his father, the composer Charles Lucièn Lambert . He spent his youth in Brazil and was later a student of Auguste Barbereau , Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet in Paris . He worked for a while as a pianist at the royal court in Portugal and then taught in Paris.
Lambert composed several operas, including Borceliade , Penticosa , Le Spahi and La Sorcière . In 1885 he was awarded the Rossini Prize for his cantata Der gefesselte Prometheus . A few wax cylinder recordings have been preserved from 1905 in which he plays pieces by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the piece "The Bird as a Prophet" from Robert Schumann's Forest Scenes .
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert in the International Music Score Library Project
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- AfriClassical - Lucien-Leon Guillaume Lambert, Jr.
- ClassicsOnline - Lucien Lambert
- Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert at Operissimo
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| SURNAME | Lambert, Lucien-Léon Guillaume |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lambert, Lucien Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1945 |
| Place of death | Porto , Portugal |