Lewis Lockwood

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Lewis Henry Lockwood (born December 16, 1930 in New York ) is an American musicologist .

Life

Lockwood taught from 1958 to 1980 at Princeton University and from 1980 to 2002 at Harvard University , where he held the position of Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music . He was editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1964 to 1967 and President of the American Musicological Society from 1987 to 1988 . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984 and the American Philosophical Society in 2013.

His main research areas are the music of the Italian Renaissance and the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven . He has published over 100 articles and several books.

In 2005 Lockwood donated the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society .

Books

  • The Counter-Reformation and the Sacred Music of Vincenzo Ruffo . Princeton 1959 (diss.)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven. Sonata for Violoncello and Pianoforte opus 69, First Movement: Facsimile of the Autograph. Introductory Note by Lewis Lockwood, New York: Columbia University Press, 1970
  • Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina , Pope Marcellus Mass: an Authoritative Score; Backgrounds and Sources, History and Analysis, Views and Comments. New York: Norton, 1975, ISBN 0-393-02185-8
  • Music in Renaissance Ferrara : the Creation of a Musical Center in the 15th Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-674-59131-3 (2008 revised paperback); awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society
  • Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992
  • with Mark Kroll: The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004
  • Beethoven: the Music and the Life. New York: Norton, 2003; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize  - German translation by Sven Hiemke: Beethoven - his music, his life. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-02231-8
  • with the Juilliard Quartet : Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Interpretation, Performance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008, with CD
  • with Alan Gosman: Beethoven's “ Eroica ” Sketchbook: A Critical Edition: Transcription, Facsimile, Commentary. 2 volumes, University of Illinois Press, 2013

Articles (selection)

  • Beethoven's Unfinished Piano Concerto of 1815: Sources and Problems. In: The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 56 (1970), pp. 624-646
  • On Beethoven's Sketches and Autographs: Some Problems of Definition and Interpretation. In: Acta Musicologica . Vol. 42 (1970), pp. 33-47
  • Addendum to: On Beethoven's Sketches and Autographs, Some Problems of Definition and Interpretation. In: Acta musicologica. Vol. 43 (1971), p. 283
  • Beethoven's Sketches for Sehnsucht (WoO 146). In: Alan Tyson (Ed.): Beethoven Studies. New York: WW Norton, 1973, pp. 97-122
  • The Beethoven Sketchbook in the Scheide Library. In: The Princeton University Library Chronicle. Vol. 37 (1976), pp. 139-153
  • Nottebohm Revisited. In: JW Grubbs (Ed.): Current Thought in Musicology. 2nd ed., Austin 1977, pp. 139-192
  • Beethoven's Early Works for Violoncello and Contemporary Violoncello Technique. In: Austrian Society for Music (Ed.): Contributions '76 -78. Beethoven Colloquium 1977. Kassel 1978, pp. 174-182
  • On the Coda of the Finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony . In: Divertimento for Hermann J. Abs . Bonn 1981, pp. 41-48
  • Beethoven's Earliest Sketches for the Eroica Symphony . In: The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 67 (1981), pp. 457-478
  • 'Eroica' Perspectives: Strategy and Design in the first Movement. In: Alan Tyson (Ed.): Beethoven Studies Volume 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 85-105
  • Beethoven's Early Works for Violoncello and Pianoforte: Innovation in Context. In: The Beethoven Newsletter. Vol. 1 (1986), pp. 17-21
  • Beethoven and the Problem of Closure: Some Examples from the middle-period Chamber Music. In: Sieghard Brandenburg , Helmut Loos (Hrsg.): Contributions to Beethoven's chamber music. Symposion Bonn 1984. Munich 1987, pp. 254-272
  • On the Cavatina of Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat major opus 130. In: Liedstudien. Wolfgang Osthoff on his 60th birthday. Tutzing 1989, pp. 293-305
  • The four "Introductions" in the Ninth Symphony . In: Problems of the symphonic tradition in the 19th century. Internationales Musikwissenschaftliches Colloquium Bonn 1989. Tutzing 1990, pp. 97–112
  • The Compositional Genesis of the Eroica Finale. In: Beethoven's Compositional Process. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 82-101
  • The Beethoven Sketchbooks and the General State of Sketch Research. In: Beethoven's Compositional process. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 6-13
  • A Problem of Form: The “Scherzo” of Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, op. 59, no. 1. In: Beethoven Forum. Volume 2 (1993), pp. 85-95
  • Beethoven before 1800: the Mozart Legacy. In: Beethoven Forum. Volume 3 (1994), pp. 39-52
  • Reshaping the genre: Beethoven's Piano Sonatas from op. 22 to op. 28 (1799–1801). In: Israel Studies in Musicology. Vol. 6 (1996), pp. 1-16
  • Film Biography as Travesty: "Immortal Beloved" and Beethoven. In: The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 81 (1997), pp. 190-198
  • Beethoven as Colourist: Another Look at his String Quartet Arrangement of the Piano Sonata, op. 14 No. 1. In: Sieghard Brandenburg (Ed.): Haydn , Mozart & Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period: Essays in Honor of Alan Tyson . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. 175-180
  • Beethoven's Emergence from Crisis: The Cello Sonatas of op.102 (1815). In: The Journal of Musicology. Vol. 16 (1998), pp. 301-322
  • Beethoven's “Kakadu” Variations, op. 121a: A Study in Paradox. In: Bruce Brubaker (Ed.): Pianist, Scholar, Connoisseur: Essays in Honor of Jacob Latin . Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 2000, pp. 95-108
  • Beethoven, Florestan, and the Varieties of Heroism. In: Scott Burnham (Ed.): Beethoven and his World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 27-47
  • Alan Tyson (1926-2000). In: AMS Newsletter. Vol. 31 (2001), issue 2, p. 20
  • Beethoven's opus 69 Revisited: The Place of the Sonata in Beethoven's Chamber Music. In: Sieghard Brandenburg , Ingeborg Maaß, Wolfgang Osthoff (eds.): Beethoven's works for piano and violoncello. Report on the International Conference Bonn, 18. – 20. June 1998. Bonn 2004, pp. 145–172
  • Beethoven and his Royal Disciple. In: Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 57 (2004), No. 3, pp. 2-7
  • Beethoven's “Harp” Quartet: The Sketches in Context. In: William Kinderman (Ed.): The String Quartets of Beethoven. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. 89-108
  • Beethoven's "Leonore" and " Fidelio ". In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Vol. 35 (2006), pp. 473-482
  • Elliot Forbes (1917-2006). In: AMS Newsletter. Vol. 37 (2007), issue 2, p. 23
  • "Vestas Feuer": Beethoven on the Path to "Leonore". In: Robert Curry (Ed.): Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on his Eightieth Birthday. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008, pp. 78-99

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personal data
SURNAME Lockwood, Lewis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lockwood, Lewis Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City