Charles-Richard Lambert (c. 1800 – March 25, 1862)[1] was an American musician, conductor and music educator.
Part of a family of prominent African-American composers, Lambert was noted for talent in music and gained international acclaim.
He married a free Creole woman of color, and his first son was Charles Lucien Lambert, born in 1828.
After his first wife died, he married Coralie Suzanne Orzy (1820–1889),[1] also a free woman of color.
Lambert worked as a music teacher and was a conductor for the Philharmonic Society, the first non-theatrical orchestra in New Orleans.