Leonard Constant Lambert (August 23, 1905 – August 21, 1951) was a British composer and conductor. is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ...

Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

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Early life

Lambert was the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert. Educated 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 a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, culminating in the broadcast and concert performances of his Rio Grande for piano solo, chorus and orchestra. A recording survives with Hamilton Harty as the soloist and the Hallé Orchestra conducted by the composer. Anzac, the landing 1915 by George Lambert (1920–22). ... Bluecoat School directs here. ... // This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев) (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous... Léon Bakst: Firebird, Ballerina, 1910 The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and resident first in Théâtre Mogador, Paris; and then in Monte Carlo. ... Image:Manny and Promil brown. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Sir (Herbert) Hamilton Harty, conductor, composer and accompanist, was born December 4, 1879 in Hillsborough (Ireland). ... The Hallé Orchestra is one of Britains longest established orchestras, and is based in Manchester. ...

Career

During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet (later the Royal Ballet), but his career as a composer stagnated, and after the disappointing reception of his major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament (after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe), which proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of the King (George V) he considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life. Instead he concentrated on conducting, and appeared at Covent Garden and in BBC broadcasts, and accompanied the ballet in European and American tours. Royal Ballet may refer to: Royal Ballet, London Birmingham Royal Ballet Royal Winnipeg Ballet Royal Danish Ballet There is also an article about the Royal Ballet School in London, England. ... Thomas Nashe (November 1567–1600?) was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer, poet and satirist. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...

The war took its toll of his vitality and creativity, and his health declined with the development of diabetes which remained untreated for years owing to his fear of doctors, stemming from childhood. This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ...

Lambert was famous in his day as a raconteur and, unusually for an Englishman, as an expert on many different arts, and on modern European culture. He was also one of the first "serious" composers to understand fully the 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", which remains one of the wittiest, if highly opinionated, volumes of music criticism in the English language. He was at the centre of a brilliant literary and intellectual circle including Michael Ayrton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, and despite Powell's denial, he is often said to be the prototype of the character Hugh Moreland in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Michael Ayrton (1921-1975), was a British artist and writer, known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. ... Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (November 15, 1897–October 1, 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. ... Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) was a British novelist best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. ... A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve volume roman à clef by Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975. ...

As a conductor he had an instinctive appreciation of Liszt, Chabrier, Waldteufel and romantic Russian composers, and made fine recordings of some of their works. However, it was only when his health was declining that his career had a chance to flourish with the development of the BBC Third Programme and the Philharmonia Orchestra, having struggled for many years to extract vital performances from second-rate ensembles. Portrait by Henri Lehmann, 1839 Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc; pronounced , in English: list) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian [1] virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. ... Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 - September 13, 1894) was a French composer. ... Emile Waldteufel (December 9, 1837 - February 12, 1915) was a French composer of popular music as well as waltzes and polkas. ... The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. ... The BBC Third Programme was the third national radio network broadcast by the BBC, has since become Radio 3, but was originally known (at least within the BBC) as C. The other two were the Home Service (mainly speech based) and the Light Programme, dedicated to light music, usually cover... The Philharmonia is an orchestra based in London. ...

Personal life

He was married to Isabel Nichols, an artist, in 1947. After Constant Lambert's death, Isabel married Alan Rawsthorne. Constant also had a child Kit Lambert who was born in 1935. Isabel Rawsthorne (1912 - 1992) née Isabel Nicholas, also known as Isabel Lambert, was a model and painter. ... Alan Rawsthorne (May 2, 1905 – July 24, 1971) was a British composer. ... Kit Lambert (May 11, 1935 – April 7, 1981) was a record producer and the manager for The Who. ...

Later life

Lambert died on 21 August, 1951, two days short of his forty-sixth birthday, of pneumonia and undiagnosed diabetes complicated by acute alcoholism, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[1] Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ... Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ... Brompton Cemetery is a cemetery located near Earls Court in West Brompton, a part of the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in west London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Major works

Ballets:

• Romeo and Juliet (1925)
• Pomona (1927)
• Horoscope (1938)
• Tiresias (1950)

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• Eight poems of Li Po (1928)
• The Rio Grande (1929) (based on a poem by Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet)
• Summer's Last Will and Testament (1936)
• Dirge from Cymbeline (1947)

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• Piano Concerto (1924) (ed. Shipley/Easterbrook - premiered Mark Gasser 2001 Christ's Hospital)
• The Bird Actors Overture (1924)
• Music for Orchestra (1927)
• Aubade Heroique (1941)

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• Concerto for Piano and 9 Instruments (1931)

Instrumental

• Piano Sonata (1930)
• Elegy, for piano (1938)
• Trois pieces negres, pour les touches blanches, piano 2 hands (1949)

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• Merchant Seamen (1940)
• Anna Karenina (1948)