Lewis Henry Lockwood

Lewis Lockwood is a music historian.  Formerly active in research on music and musicians of the Italian Renaissance,he shifted in later years to European music of the 18th and 19th centuries, with a special focus on Beethoven and his times. His book, Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York, Norton, 2003) was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Other publications include The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance, co-edited with Mark Kroll (Illinois, 2004); Inside Beethoven's Quartets, co-authored with the Juilliard String Quartet (2008);  Beethoven's "Eroica" Sketchbook: A Critical Edition, 2 vols (2013), co-authored with Alan Gosman; and Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision (2015). He has written various reviews in The New York Review of Books. . Retired from Harvard University in 2002 as Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, having taught there since 1980; prior to that taught at Princeton University from 1958 to 1980. In the past several years he has been a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Boston University, and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at that institution. Other interests include the history of opera, and chamber music, Lockwood remains active as a cellist in chamber music. His book, Beethoven's LIves was published in 2020 (a critical overview of Beethoven biography from its beginnings to the present).