Lambert Massart

Joseph Lambert Massart (19 July 1811 – 13 February 1892) was a Belgian violinist who has been credited with the origination of the systematic vibrato.

He was an excellent String quartet player who gave many delightful chamber concerts, having also played Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata in A minor with Franz Liszt on 23 May 1843.

[2] With the death of his uncle, Massart studied under the guidance of Ambroise Delaveux who then secured for him, from the local authorities of Liège, a scholarship at the Conservatoire de Paris,[1] where his admission was then blocked by Luigi Cherubini on the grounds that Massart was a foreigner.

[2] Despite being sponsored by King William I of the Netherlands,[3] he was not accepted at the Conservatoire de Paris until 1829 because of his foreign status.

Among his pupils were Julius Conus, Fritz Kreisler, Eugène Ysaÿe, Léon Reynier, Henryk Wieniawski, Alfred De Sève, Isidor Lotto, Teresina Tua, and Charles Martin Loeffler.