The Resume

(August 23, 1905-August 21, 1951)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Birth name was Leonard Constant Lambert
Composer and conductor
Musical director for the Vic-Wells Ballet
Conductor at Convent Gardens, the Proms summer music festival and on BBC radio
Compositions include 'The Rio Grande' (1927), 'Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments' (1931), 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1936) and 'Elegy' (1938)
Composed the ballets 'Romeo and Juliet' (1925), 'Horoscope' (1938) and 'Tiresias' (1950)
Composed the score for the film 'Anna Karenina' (1948)
Father of Who manager Kit Lambert

Why he might be annoying:

He was a child prodigy.
He had an extramarital affair with ballerina Margot Fonteyn.
He considered himself a failure as a composer.
He was afraid of doctors and never got his diabetes properly treated.
He further undermined his health through overwork and heavy drinking.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was deaf in one ear from a childhood illness.
At age 20, he was the first English composer commissioned to write a ballet for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes.
He was one of the first classical composers to take jazz seriously.
John Maynard Keynes said he was possibly the most brilliant man he ever met.
A critic for 'The Guardian' wrote '[His] scores could make the dullest dancer seem divine.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alcohol Contributed to My Death
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 47]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [August] (Ranked: 8231905)
• I am an Adulterer
• I Died in 1951 (Ranked: 45)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Have Diabetes
• I'm Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Known By a Middle Name
• Look at Me, I'm Writing
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Look at My Keyboard
• Profiles 34251-34500 (Ranked: 34421)
• Sheep Names

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 37 Votes: 45.95% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 72 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying