Normand Lockwood

Normand Lockwood (born March 19, 1906 in New York City , † March 9, 2002 in Denver ) was an American composer and music teacher.

Lockwood's father, Samuel Pierson Lockwood, was a violinist, teacher and conductor at the University of Michigan Music School at Ann Arbor, and his mother played the violin in the university's string quartet. Lockwood had first piano lessons in Ann Arbor with Otto J. Stahl and studied until 1924 at the music school of the University of Michigan.

He traveled to Europe with his uncle, the pianist Albert Lockwood , and studied orchestration with Ottorino Respighi in Rome from 1924-25 . This was followed by composition studies with Nadia Boulanger (1926-28 and 1930-32). In 1929 he received the Rome Prize and studied at the American Academy in Rome until 1932 .

After returning to the USA, he became a professor of music theory and composition at Oberlin College . From 1942 to 1948 he lived as a recipient of a Guggenheim scholarship in New York, where he worked as a composer and a. a. Lectured at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary .

In 1948 he became professor of music theory and composition at Westminster Choir College , in addition he gave guest lectures at Queens College and at Yale University . From 1953 to 1955 he was the principal of the music department at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. From 1957 to 1961 he held visiting professorships at the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii , after which he was professor at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1974 .

Web links

• Normand Lockwood on the University of Colorado website
• Literature by and about Normand Lockwood in the WorldCat bibliographic database