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Lewis Lockwood (b. 1930 in New York City) is an American musicologist.

His principal areas of research have been in music of the Italian Renaissance and in the life and music of Beethoven. He taught at Princeton University (1858-1980) and at Harvard University (1960-2002), and is now the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Harvard. He is an Honorary Member and past President of the American Musicological Society, which established an award in his name for a musicological book of exceptional merit by a scholar in the earlier stages of his or her career.

Lockwood is the author of more than 100 articles and reviews. His main books are:

Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505 (Oxford University Press, 1984; revised paperback edition, 2008); Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (Harvard University Press, 1992); The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticiam, Performance, co-edited with Mark Kroll (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Beethoven, The Music and the Life (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003; paperback 2005). This book was one of two finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2003; Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation, co-authored with the Juilliard String Quartet (Joel Smirnoff, Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes, Joel Krosnick) (Harvard University Press, 2008