Helmut Kallmann
| Helmut Kallmann | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 August 1922 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 12 February 2012 (aged 89) Ottawa, Canada |
| Occupation | Musicologist |
| Education | University of Toronto |
| Subject | Canadian Music |
| Notable awards | Canadian Music Council Medal, Canadian Music Council (1977), Order of Canada (1986), Friends of Canadian Music Award, Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers (2006) |
| Spouse | Ruth Proctor (married 1955-1994) |
Helmut Max Kallmann C.M. (born 7 August 1922, Berlin, Germany; d. 12 February 2012 in Ottawa, ON) was a musicologist, music educator, librarian, and scholar of Canadian music history. He 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.
Kallmann was born in Berlin in 1922, the son of Jewish parents, Arthur and Fanny Kallmann. Urged by Helmut's teacher, the family sent Kallmann to London as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission in 1939. His mother, father and older sister Eva were unable to get the necessary papers to leave Germany, and died in the Holocaust.
In London, Kallmann studied piano with Margery 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 shipped off to Canada. He arrived in Quebec City, Canada in 1940 on board the MS Sobieski, part of a convoy of 2,000 other “prisoners of war.” He was held in a series of internment camps until 1943, when a Jewish family in Toronto agreed to sponsor him. He moved to Toronto, and worked in a bookstore 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 completed a B.Mus from the University of Toronto in 1949 during which time he completed studies with Richard Johnston, Robert Rosevear, Arnold Walter and Leo Smith. When Kallman noticed that Canadian composers were rarely covered in the curriculum, he began to gather information on Canadian composers and their published compositions. This work continued throughout his lifetime.
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