Alexander Lambert was born in Warsaw in 1862 and died in New York in 1929. At the
age of twelve he played for Anton Rubinstein who advised that he should study at the
Vienna Conservatorium. He later became a pupil of Julius Epstein. He made his début in
1881 in New York. He returned to Europe and toured Germany and Russia before
spending a period in 1884 with Liszt at Weimar. He studied composition with Bruckner
in Vienna and gave concerts with Joachim and Sarasate.
In 1884 he returned to America where he resumed performing. He became Director of
New York College of Music in 1888 and held that position until he retired in 1 906,
having given up concert work in 1892. He wrote ‘Piano Method for Beginners’ and ‘A
Systematic Course of Studies’. His pupils included Vera Brodsky, Albert von Doenhoff,
Jerome Kern, Mana-Zucca, Nadia Resienberg and Beryl Ruinstein. Alexander Lambert
did not make any Liszt discs or Liszt rolls.
LAMOND
Life
Frederick Lamond was born in Glasgow on 28 January 1868 and died in Stirling,
Scotland, on 21 February 1948. He received his first piano lessons from his brother
David, and as a boy also studied organ, oboe and violin. He studied in Frankfurt at the
Raff Conservatory with Bülow, Max Schwarz and Anton Urspruch, and in Weimar with
Liszt in 1885-86. He also studied with Clara Schumann.
After his Berlin début in 1885 he regularly toured throughout Europe and the United
States, being noted for his interpretations of the piano works of Beethoven and Liszt. He
performed Liszt’s Don Giovanni Fantasy at the Liszt Festival which was held at the Liszt
Academy of Music, Budapest, from 21 to 25 October 1911. He married a German actress
and settled in Berlin in 1904, remaining there until the start of World War I. He then
moved to London. Over the years he appeared in concerts in most European cities.
He taught at The Hague Conservatory, at the Eastman School of Music in 1923-24 and at
the Music Academy in Glasgow from 1939 to 1941. He appeared as soloist with the
Philadelphia Orchestra during the 1924 season. He finally returned to Scotland and died
at Stirling.
Frederick Lamond wrote ‘Beethoven: Notes on the Sonatas’ (Glasgow, 1944) and ‘The
Memoirs of Frederick Lamond’ (Glasgow, 1949). His pupils included Rudolf am Bach,
Jan Chiapusso, Gunnar Johansen and Ervin Nyiregyhazi. He made Liszt discs and made
Liszt rolls, two of which, Liebestraum no. 3 and Un Sospiro, are on CD.
Lamond &Liszt
Frederick Lamond remembers Franz Liszt: