Lewis H. Lockwood is an American musicologist.

He taught at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 from 1958 to 1980, and at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 from 1980 to 2002. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Boston University and the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard. He edited the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1964 to 1967 and was president of the American Musicological Society

American Musicological Society

The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...

 from 1987 to 1988.

His main fields are the music of the Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe...

 and the life and music of Beethoven. In 2003 Joseph Kerman called him "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation, and the leading American authority on Beethoven."
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
  Otto Kinkeldey
  Otto Kinkeldey was an American music librarian and musicologist. He was the first president of the American Musicological Society and held the first chair in musicology at any American university....
  
   Award;
• 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), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography
  Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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   in 2003;
• Inside Beethoven's Quartets, co-authored with the Juilliard String Quartet (2008)

A festschrift

Festschrift

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in his honor was published in 1996. The Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society

American Musicological Society

The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...

, awarded annually to an exceptional book by a musicologist within ten years of his or her Ph.D., is named in Lockwood's honor.