Charles-Richard Lambert

Charles-Richard Lambert (c. 1800 – March 25, 1862)[1] was an American musician, conductor and music educator. Part of a family of prominent African-American composers, Lambert was noted for talent in music and gained international acclaim.[2]

Life and career

Lambert was born in New York City, but settled in New Orleans. He married a free Creole woman of color, and his first son was Charles Lucien Lambert, born in 1828. After his first wife died, he married Coralie Suzanne Orzy (1820–1889),[1] also a free woman of color. They had a son Sidney Lambert, born in 1838. Both sons studied music with their father, and afterward became noted musicians and composers.[3] Lambert's grandson Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert, born in 1858, was also a noted musician and composer.

Lambert worked as a music teacher and was a conductor for the Philharmonic Society, the first non-theatrical orchestra in New Orleans.[4] Lambert died in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,[1] while performing there with his son Sidney. Noted students include Edmond Dédé.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Charles Richard Lambert", Find a Grave.
  2. ^ Macdonald, Robert R.; Kemp, John R.; Haas, Edward F. (1979). Louisiana's Black heritage.
  3. ^ a b Sybil Kein, Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000, pp. 80-82, accessed December 28, 2010.
  4. ^ Price, Emmett George (2010). Encyclopedia of African American music: Volume 3. p. 219.


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