14 Facts About Helmut Kallmann

Helmut Max Kallmann was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, librarian, and scholar of Canadian music history.

Helmut Kallmann was a librarian at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, head of the music division at Library Archives Canada, and co-founder of the Canadian Music Library Association.

In London, Kallmann studied piano with Margery Moore and music theory with Russell E Chester.

Helmut Kallmann was free to study until May 1940, when he was rounded up as an "enemy alien" and taken to Canada.

Helmut Kallmann arrived in Quebec City, Canada in 1940 on board the MS Sobieski, part of a convoy of 2,000 other "prisoners of war".

Helmut Kallmann was held in a series of internment camps, first near Fredericton, New Brunswick, then Farnham, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Quebec, and finally Ile aux Noix, Quebec.

Helmut Kallmann moved to Toronto, working first for an accountancy firm, and then at Coles bookstore, while studying piano and finishing high school.

Helmut Kallmann enrolled in the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.

Helmut Kallmann worked in the Toronto Music Library of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1950 to 1970, becoming the library supervisor in 1962.

In 1970, Helmut Kallmann became the head of the newly created music division of the National Library of Canada, now Library and Archives Canada.

Helmut Kallmann led the building and preserving of a broad collection of musical Canadiana: printed material, manuscripts and recordings.

Helmut Kallmann retired from the library in 1987, and he and Potvin edited the second edition of the encyclopedia, released in 1992.

Helmut Kallmann was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977.

Helmut Kallmann was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1986.