Constant Lambert
| Constant Lambert | |
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Portrait by Christopher Wood (1926)
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| Born |
Leonard Constant Lambert 23 August 1905 Fulham, London |
| Died | 21 August 1951 (aged 45) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Royal College of Music Christ's Hospital |
| Known for |
Composer conductor author |
| Notable work |
The Rio Grande Summer's Last Will and Testament Music Ho! |
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author.
The son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert and younger brother of Maurice Lambert, Constant Lambert was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music. His teachers at the latter institution were Ralph Vaughan Williams, R. O. Morris and Sir George Dyson (composition), Malcolm Sargent (conducting) and Herbert Fryer (piano). While still a boy he demonstrated formidable musical gifts. He wrote his first orchestral works at the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet).
For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell. Lambert's best-known composition is The Rio Grande (1927) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion. It achieved instant success, and Lambert made two recordings of the piece as conductor (1930 and 1949). He had a great interest in African-American music, and once said that he would have ideally liked The Rio Grande to feature a black choir.
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