is one of the leading experts on the life and work of Beethoven. His Beethoven: The Music and the Life (2003) got to the final round of the Pulitzer Prize. Until 1980 he taught at Princeton University, after which he accepted a chair as Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. Lockwood first started to investigate the music of the Italian Renaissance, which resulted in his book Music in Renaissance Ferrara (1984). From 1987-88 he was president of the American Musicological Society, which nominated him Honorary Member in 1993 and awarded him the Einstein en Kinkeldey Awards for his book Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (1992). In 2005 the same Society established an annual Prize in his name, for the best musicological study of a young scholar. This year Lockwood published, together with the members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Inside Beethoven’s Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation. In Nexus 50 he deals with ‘Beethoven’s Moral Vision in His Time and Ours’.