Charles Lucien Lambert

Charles Lucien Lambert ( Lucien Lambert, Sr., * 1828 or 1829 in New Orleans, † 1896) was an American composer.

The son of the musician Charles Richard Lambert, who was one of the teachers Edmond Dede, and a Creole mother had as his half-brother Sidney Lambert his first music lessons from his father. In the 1850s he lived in Paris, where in 1854 his first composition, the piano piece L' Angelus au monastère: Prière appeared. In France in 1858, his son Lucien- Léon Guillaume Lambert was born, which was also known as a composer.

In the 1860s, Lambert went with his family to Brazil, where he opened a piano and music business and eventually a member of the Brazilian National Institute of Music. In 1869 he started with his son on in one of the concerts, the verandstaltete Louis Moreau Gottschalk in a cast with more than thirty pianists. Later he became the first teacher of the Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, born in 1863.

In addition to piano pieces Lambert also composed the four-act opera La Flamenca for a Librettn by Henri Cain and Eugène Edward Adenis which appeared in print in 1899 and was first performed at the Théâtre Municipal.

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• Man
• Born in the 19th century
• Died in 1896
• American composer