Lambert, Lucien
(1858–1945)> COMPOSER
Lambert, Lucien (1858, Paris; 21 January 1945, Oporto), composer, began his musical career by touring as a concert pianist, but he returned to his native Paris eventually to collaborate with Jules Massenet and François Théodore Dubois on the “lyric scene” entitled Prométhée , which won the Rossini prize at the Conservatoire in 1885. Lambert became interested in composing for the theatre at this time, and his opera Brocéliande was produced in Rouen in 1893, while his Le Spahi was booked into the…