Constant Lambert

Person · Open Library

Born

1905

Died

1951

Works

15

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1982

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

678

Total plays

4,425

Leonard Constant Lambert (August 23, 1905 – August 21, 1951) was a British composer and conductor. Lambert was the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert. 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 Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet). For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of

via Last.fm · Constant Lambert

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 9,729x

2. World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

   · 2020 · cited 8,944x

3. <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2

   · 2018 · cited 7,359x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

   · 2017 · cited 6,082x

5. Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2013 · cited 4,076x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".”
• “Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.”
• “Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.”
• “To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.”
• “Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.”
• “The composer is now faced, not with further experiment but with the more difficult task of consolidating the experiments of this vertiginous period. He is like a man in a high-powered motor-car that has got out of control. He must either steer it away from the cliff's edge back to the road or leap out of it altogether. Most modern composers have chosen the latter plan, remarking, as they dexterously save their precious lives: "I think motor-cars are a little vieux jeu – don't you?"”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA