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Lot Essay
The presentation inscription on the present lot reads TO ALEXANDER LAMBERT FROM HIS FRIENDS, NOVEMBER FIRST 1862-1919, and includes a list of nineteen names.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Alexander Lambert (1862-1929) was a gifted pianist and piano teacher. After studying with his father, Lambert attended the Vienna Conservatory. Lambert graduated in 1878, and after some time working in Germany with famed composer Franz Liszt, he moved to New York in 1884. There he served as the director of the New York College of Music from 1887 to 1905, and composed several works for piano, as well as an important piano instruction manual. Lambert was tragically struck and killed by a taxi driver on New Year's Eve of 1929, and was buried in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. Lambert's funeral was attended by the most important figures in music at the time, with pallbearers including Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as Daniel Frohman and Artur Bodanzky, whose names are included in the inscription on the present lot.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Alexander Lambert (1862-1929) was a gifted pianist and piano teacher. After studying with his father, Lambert attended the Vienna Conservatory. Lambert graduated in 1878, and after some time working in Germany with famed composer Franz Liszt, he moved to New York in 1884. There he served as the director of the New York College of Music from 1887 to 1905, and composed several works for piano, as well as an important piano instruction manual. Lambert was tragically struck and killed by a taxi driver on New Year's Eve of 1929, and was buried in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. Lambert's funeral was attended by the most important figures in music at the time, with pallbearers including Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as Daniel Frohman and Artur Bodanzky, whose names are included in the inscription on the present lot.