Leonard Constant Lambert composer writer and conductor was born in London on August 23rd 1905. He was a student of Ralph Vaughan Williams protege of Arthur Bliss and close friend and rival of William Walton. The present Suite for Piano was written when the composer was 19 years old. Constant Lambert died on August 21st 1951 (as a result of pneumonia and undiagnosed diabetes complicated by acute alcoholism) and was laid to rest in Brompton Cemetery London.