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Leonard Constant Lambert, (August 23, 1905 – August 21, 1951) was a British composer and conductor. Enlightened at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music, Lambert was a prodigy, writing orchestral works from the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet). For two or three years he enjoyed the meteoric celebrity, culminating in the broadcast & concert performances of his Rio Grande for piano solo, chorus and orchestra. The recording lives by using Hamilton Harty as a soloist & the HallĂ© Orchestra conducted by the composer. When you took a 1930s his career as a conductor took off using his appointment with a Vic-Wells ballet (late a Royal Ballet), however his career as a composer stagnated, & when a dissatisfactory reception of his major choral act Summers Go May & Testament (when a play of the equivalent title by Thomas Nashe), which proved unfashionable in a mood as a consequence the demise of the King (George V) he considered he had failed as a composer, & completed single deuce major works in the unexpended 16 years of his life. Instead he concentrated within conducting, & appeared at Covent Garden & in BBC broadcasts, & accompanied a ballet within European and Western tours. A war took its toll of his vitality & creativeness, & his health declined using a development of diabetes which remained untreated for years owing to his fear of doctors, stemming from childhood. Lambert was illustrious around his day as a anecdotist &, remarkably for an Englishman, as an adept in numerous different arts, & in modern European culture. He was as well one of a foremost "serious" composers to know fully a importance of jazz and popular culture in the music of his time. This is illustrated by his book Music, Ho! (1931), subtitled "a study of music in decline". He was at the centre of a brilliant literary & rational circle including Michael Ayrton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, and despite Powell's denial, he is clearly a epitome of the character Hugh Moreland within Powell's The Dance to the Music of Period. As the conductor he experienced a prescient appreciation of Liszt, Chabrier, Waldteufel and romantic Russian composers, and processed ticket recordings of a few of their works. Nevertheless, it was only if his health was declining that his career experienced a risk to flourish using a development of the BBC Third Programme & the Philharmonia Orchestra, having struggled for numerous years to extract vital performances from either 2nd-mediocre ensembles.
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Lambert, Leonard Constant Biography from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio showing his anti-traditional leanings, balletic output, and work as music critic. Constant Lambert Biography, photograph, music clip in MP3 format, partial works list and discography, and program notes from a performance of Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments from Oxford University Press. Constant Lambert Partial works list by decade, photograph, brief biography, and links from the Classical Composers Database. Constant Lambert (1905-1951), Composer, Conductor and Critic Brief biographical sketch and list of art works and photographs of him from the National Portrait Gallery. Constant Lambert Biography from portaljuice.com with internal links to related subjects. Constant Lambert Find A Grave listing with portrait, photograph, biography including founding of what became the Royal Ballet and details of his death, and link to other famous burials in Brompton Cemetery, London. Constant Lambert Listing with the Lied and Art Song Texts Page includes English texts of his cycle Four Poems by Li-Po. Constant Lambert Filmography from the Internet Movie Database with links to related material, including son Kit. Constant Lambert Biography focusing on his friendship with Aleister Crowley includes two limericks from what Crowley called his "Constant Lambert Series." From Red Flame Thelemic Research Site. |
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