Voice & Piano | Lambelet Napoleon – Otan gelas ki otan mileis

Lambelet Napoleon – Otan gelas ki otan mileis (Όταν γελάς και όταν μιλείς)
(When you laugh and when you speak)

Napoleon Lambelet (1864 in Corfu – 1932 in London) is a Greek composer. He was the first composer of his generation who made his career with successes abroad after Spyridon Samaras and essentially the first conductor who attempted to create Greek melodrama.

Lambelet came from a musician family of Swiss origin. His father Edouardos Lambelet (1820-1903) was a composer and pupil of Nikolaos Mantzaros, his younger brother Georgios (1875-1945) was an early representative of the Greek National School and a significant music writer, the other siblings were all musicians.