Helmut Max KallmannCM (7 August 1922 – 12 February 2012) was a Canadianmusicologist, music educator, librarian, and scholar of Canadian music history. He was a librarian at theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation, head of the music division atLibrary Archives Canada, and co-founder of theCanadian Music Library Association.^[1]

Arthur Kallmann

Fanny Kallmann (born Paradies)

Eva Kallmann

Stolpersteine for his Father, mother, and older sister Eva (Geisbergstraße 41,Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany)

Kallmann was born inBerlin in 1922, the son of Jewish parents, Arthur and Fanny Kallmann.^[2] Urged by Helmut's teacher, the family sent Kallmann to London as part of theKindertransport rescue mission in 1939. His mother, father and older sister Eva were unable to get the necessary papers to leave Germany, and were murdered inthe Holocaust.^[1]

In London, Kallmann studied piano withMargery Moore and music theory with Russell E. Chester. He was free to study until May 1940, when he was rounded up as an "enemy alien" and taken to Canada. He arrived in Quebec City, Canada in 1940 on board theMSSobieski, part of a convoy of 2,000 other "prisoners of war".^[3][4]He was held in a series of internment camps, first nearFredericton, New Brunswick, thenFarnham, Quebec,Sherbrooke, Quebec, and finallyIle aux Noix, Quebec.^[5][6]While at Sherbrooke, Kallmann passed an external examination in harmony and counterpoint fromMcGill University.^[5]In 1943, a Jewish family in Toronto agreed to sponsor him.^[2] He moved to Toronto, working first for an accountancy firm, and then at Coles bookstore,^[5] while studying piano and finishing high school. Kallmann became a naturalized Canadian in 1946. In Toronto, he studied piano with Naomi Adaskin,Greta Kraus (1944–45), and Florence Steinhauer (1947–48).

Kallmann enrolled in theUniversity of Toronto, Faculty of Music. On the recommendation ofArnold Walter, he chose the recently launched School Music program.^[5] He studied withRichard Johnston, Robert Rosevear,Arnold Walter andLeo Smith, completing his B.Mus. in 1949. When Kallman noticed that Canadian composers were rarely covered in the curriculum, he began to gather information on Canadian composers and their published compositions, work that continued throughout his lifetime.^[1]

Kallmann worked in the Toronto Music Library of theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1950 to 1970, becoming the library supervisor in 1962. While there, he built an archive of some 1,000 Canadian compositions. In 1960, he publishedA History of Music in Canada 1534–1914.^[7]

In 1970, Kallmann became the head of the newly created music division of the National Library of Canada, nowLibrary and Archives Canada. He led the building and preserving of a broad collection of musical Canadiana: printed material, manuscripts and recordings. WithGilles Potvin and Kenneth Winters, he edited the first edition of theEncyclopedia of Music in Canada, released in English in 1981 and in French in 1983. At almost 1,100 pages, the English edition was the largest book that University of Toronto Press had published up to that time.^[5] Kallmann retired from the library in 1987, and he and Potvin edited the second edition of the encyclopedia, released in 1992.^[1]

WithClifford Ford,Elaine Keillor and others, Kallmann helped form the Canadian Musical Heritage Society, serving as its chair for much of its existence.^[1]

In 1975,Carleton University appointed Kallmann an honorary adjunct professor, later an adjunct research professor.As recently as 2006–2007, he and Keillor were teaching graduate courses in Canadian music.^[8]In his memory, the university has established a fund for the Helmut Kallmann Chair in Canadian Music.^[2]

The University of Toronto granted Kallmann an honorary doctorate in 1971.^[2]He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977.He was appointed a Member of theOrder of Canada in 1986.^[9]

The Helmut Kallmann Award for Distinguished Service relating to music libraries and archives in Canada was established by theCanadian Association of Music Libraries in 2000. In 2006, he was the first librarian to receive the Friends of Canadian Music Award, given by theCanadian Music Centre and theCanadian League of Composers.^[1]

In 2018,Carleton University announced the creation of theHelmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada, an endowed chair that will work with undergraduate and graduate students and research topics of Canadian music. The position received significant funding from Carleton Distinguished Research ProfessorElaine Keillor as well asThe Koerner Foundation.^[10]

• "Canadian music as a field for research",The Toronto Conservatory of Music Bulletin, March 1950.
• Catalogue of Canadian Composers, revised, enlarged ed (Toronto 1952).
• "Kanada",Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) (Kassel 1958).
• A History of Music in Canada 1534-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1987 [1960, 1969, with amendments 1987].
• "The Music Collection of the National Library of Canada."Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 34, no. 4, 1987, pp. 174–184., www.jstor.org/stable/23507508.
• "Mapping Canada's music: A life's task", inMusic in Canada/La Musique au Canada, Vol 1, ed. Guido Bimberg (Bochum 1997).
• Beckwith, John; Elliott, Robin, eds. (2013).Mapping Canada's Music: Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.ISBN 978-1554588916.

• Guide to the Helmut Kallmann Collection (Center for Jewish History)
• Helmet Max Kallmann biography at Ex Libris Association

• Members of the Order of Canada
• Kindertransport refugees
• University of Toronto alumni
• Canadian musicologists
• Canadian librarians
• Canadian music historians
• Academic staff of Carleton University
• Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Canada
• German emigrants to Canada
• 1922 births
• 2012 deaths
• Musicologists from Berlin

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