Lewis Lockwood
Lewis H. Lockwood (b. New York City, 1930)1 is an American musicologist.
He taught at Princeton University from 1958 to 1980, and at Harvard University from 1980 to 2002.1 He is currently a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Boston University2 and the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard.3 He edited the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1964 to 1967 and was president of the American Musicological Society from 1987 to 1988.1
His main fields are the music of the Italian Renaissance and the life and music of Beethoven.1 In 2003 Joseph Kerman called him "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation, and the leading American authority on Beethoven."4 He has published more than 100 articles and reviews in these and related fields, and his main books are:
- Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505 (1984; revised paperback, 2008), winner of the AMS's Otto Kinkeldey Award;5
- Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (1992);
- The Beethoven Violin Sonatas, co-edited with Mark Kroll (2004)
- Beethoven: the Music and the Life (2003; paperback 2005),6 a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 2003;37
- Inside Beethoven's Quartets, co-authored with the Juilliard String Quartet (2008)
A festschrift in his honor was published in 1996.38 The Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society, awarded annually to an exceptional book by a musicologist within ten years of his or her Ph.D., is named in Lockwood's honor.39
References
- ^ a b c d Paula Morgan, "Lewis Lockwood". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, online.
- ^ Press Release, "Lewis Lockwood to join the BU Faculty, October 10, 2011"
- ^ a b c d Bashir, Asli A. (November 30, 2006), "Prof Pans Beethoven Flick", Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/11/30/prof-pans-beethoven-flick-looking-for/.
- ^ The New York Review of Books, February 27, 2003
- ^ Otto Kinkeldey Award Winners, AMS, retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (January 19, 2003), "The First Modern", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/books/the-first-modern.html, "The book switches between the story of the composer's life and his milieu and analysis of his music, with the emphasis toward the latter ... there is no better survey of Beethoven's compositions for a wide audience".
- ^ Getlin, Josh (April 8, 2003), "2003 Pulitzer Prizes", Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Cummings, Anthony M.; Owens, Jessie Ann, eds. (1996), Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood, Detroit Monographs in Musicology, Harmonie Park Press, ISBN 978-0-89990-102-2.
- ^ Lewis Lockwood Award, American Musicological Society, retrieved 2010-04-28.