Andrew Lamb (writer) - Writings

Writings

Lamb's books and biographies, relating mostly to musical theatre, include the following:

• Jerome Kern in Edwardian London, Littlehampton, 1981; enlarged, Inst. for Studies in Amer. Music (Brooklyn, New York), 1985. ISBN 0-914678-24-8
• Gänzl's Book of the Musical Theatre (with Kurt Gänzl), Bodley Head (London), 1988. ISBN 0-370-31157-4
• The Moulin Rouge (ed.), Alan Sutton / St. Martin's, 1990. ISBN 0-86299-753-4 / ISBN 0-312-04566-2
• Light Music from Austria: Reminiscences and Writings of Max Schönherr (ed.), Peter Lang Pub., 1992. ISBN 0-8204-1671-1
• Skaters' Waltz: The Story of the Waldteufels, Fullers Wood Press (Croydon, England), 1995. ISBN 0-9524149-0-2
• An Offenbach Family Album, Fullers Wood Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9524149-1-0
• Shirley House to Trinity School, Fullers Wood Press, 1999. ISBN 0-9524149-2-9
• 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre, Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 2000. ISBN 0-300-07538-3
• Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora, London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93747-4
• Leslie Stuart: My Bohemian Life (ed.), Fullers Wood Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9524149-3-7
• Fragson: The Triumphs and the Tragedy (with Julian Myerscough), Fullers Wood Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9524149-4-5
• The Merry Widow at 100, Fullers Wood Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9524149-5-3
• A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Story of Henry Russell, Fullers Wood Press, 2007 ISBN 0-9524149-6-1
• William Vincent Wallace: Composer, Virtuoso and Adventurer, Fullers Wood Press (West Byfleet, England), 2012. ISBN 978-0-9524149-7-1

He has written extensively for periodicals including Gramophone, The Musical Times, Opera, Music and Letters, The Listener, and Wisden Cricket Monthly. He is a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and wrote more than 150 articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, including biographies of George M. Cohan, Noël Coward, Jerome Kern, Charles Lecocq, Franz Lehár, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lionel Monckton and Jacques Offenbach, and articles on revue, musical comedy, music hall, parlour song and operetta. He was a member of the Advisory Board of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Online examples of his writing include articles on Gershwin's Cuban vacation, two 1890s English comic opera tours of South America. and the zarzuelas La generala and El maestro Campanone.

He has also compiled albums of songs by Lehár for Glocken Verlag (ISMN M-57006-019-1, ISMN M-57006-109-9, ISMN M-57006-111-2 and ISMN 979-0-57006-115-0) and of operetta numbers by Offenbach for Choudens.