Normand Lockwood

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

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

With his uncle, pianist Albert Lockwood, he traveled to Europe and studied orchestration with Ottorino Respighi 1924-25 in Rome. This was followed by a study in composition with Nadia Boulanger ( 1926-28 and 1930-32 ). In 1929 he was awarded the Prix de Rome and studied until 1932 at the American Academy in Rome.

After his return to the U.S. he became professor of music theory and composition at Oberlin College. From 1942 to 1948 he lived as a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York, where he worked as a composer and among other things, at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary lectured.

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 rector of the music faculty of 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 he was until his retirement in 1974 professor at the University of Denver.

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• Man
• Born in 1906
• Died in 2002
• American composer
• Music teacher