Charles-Richard Lambert
{{short description|American musician, conductor, and music educator}}
Charles-Richard Lambert (c. 1800 – March 25, 1862)[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89517380/charles-richard-lambert "Charles Richard Lambert"], Find a Grave. 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.{{cite book |title=Louisiana's Black heritage|first=Robert R.|last=Macdonald|first2=John R.|last2=Kemp|first3=Edward F.|last3=Haas|year=1979}}
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), 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. 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.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of African American music: Volume 3|page=219|author=Price, Emmett George|year=2010}} Lambert died in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while performing there with his son Sidney. Noted students include Edmond Dédé.[https://books.google.com/books?id=HSKsSihlN7IC&pg=PA81 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.
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