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 taught by his father, the composer Charles Lucien Lambert. He spent his youth in Brazil and later in Paris pupil of Auguste Barbereau, Theodore Dubois and Jules Massenet. He worked for a time 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. For his cantata Prometheus Bound, he was in 1885 awarded the Rossini Prize. Some wax cylinder recordings have been preserved from 1905, on which he plays pieces by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the play " The Bird as Prophet" from Robert Schumann's Forest Scenes.