“On Dec. 16, while the classical music world is honoring Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the international community of scholars devoted to his music will also be honoring … the 90th birthday of professor Lewis Lockwood, which coincides, to the day, with that of the composer he has placed at the center of his scholarly work for five decades,” writes Jeremy Eichler in Sunday’s (9/20) Boston Globe. “Lockwood has been hailed by musicologist Joseph Kerman as ‘the leading authority on Beethoven in America.’ And since retiring from full-time teaching in 2002, Lockwood has not exactly been resting on his laurels. His own Beethoven biography was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; he has written books on Beethoven’s Symphonies and one on Beethoven’s Quartets (with the Juilliard Quartet); and co-edited a landmark critical edition of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Sketchbook. Next up: ‘Beethoven’s Lives’ will be published this month by Boydell and Brewer. The new book surveys over two centuries of Beethoven biography, from the poet Franz Grillparzer’s funeral oration to the present day, and provides an insider’s look at this elusive genre from one of its finest practitioners.”
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