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Alexander Lambert (November 1, 1863 – December 31, 1929) was a pianist and a piano teacher.

Alexander Lambert
Lambert in 1916
Born	(1863-11-01)November 1, 1863 Warsaw, Poland
Died	December 31, 1929(1929-12-31) (aged 66) Manhattan, United States
Occupation	Pianist, music teacher

Biography

He was born on November 1, 1863, in Warsaw, Poland, to Henry Lambert.

He graduated from the Vienna Conservatory of Music in 1878.[1]

After moving to New York, he was faculty of New York College of Music. His students included Jerome Kern, Alfred Newman, Anita Socola Specht, and Fannie Morris Spencer. He also taught at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.[2] His book, Piano Method for Beginners, was published by G. Schirmer.[2]

He died on New Year's Eve 1929 in Manhattan when he was struck and killed by a taxicab.[2] He left an estate with a net value of $273,457, equivalent to $4,500,000 in 2021, and was buried in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn.[3] The pallbearers at his funeral included Walter Damrosch, Daniel Frohman, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Bodanzky, Walter W. Naumburg, Efrem Zimbalist, and Jascha Heifetz and Josef Hofmann who also played music.[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Alexander Lambert at Wikimedia Commons
• Profile, Mahler Foundation

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[de] Alexander Lambert

Alexander Lambert (* 1. November 1863 in Warschau; † 31. Dezember 1929 in New York City) war ein polnisch-amerikanischer Komponist, Pianist und Musikpädagoge.

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