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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 - 21 August 1951) was a British composer and conductor.Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was 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 Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet).For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Facade with Edith Sitwell.Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande (1927) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion.

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