SWEDISH
VESLEMÖY HEINTZ holds a degree in history and musicology from Stockholm University. From 1972 to 1993 she worked at the Swedish Music History Archive and is now head of the Department of Documentation of the Music Library of Sweden in Stockholm. Ms. Heintz was Secretary General of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) from 1987 to 1995, and since 1995, the President of IAML. She was also chair of the Music Documentation Centres Branch of IAML from 1991 to 1993, is now a member of the IAML Working Group on Music Periodicals, is responsible for the Swedish RILM work, and is a member of the RIPM Commission Mixte.
Ms. Heintz is a board member of the Swedish IAML branch and vice-president of the Swedish Musicological Society. She is responsible for the Bibliography of Swedish Literature on Music (published annually) and was one of the initiators of the Scandinavian RIPM project.
ANDERS LÖNN is chief librarian at the Music Library of Sweden (Statens musikbibliotek), Stockholm. He studied musicology under Ingmar Bengtsson at Uppsala University, and was a documentalist at the then Swedish Music History Archive (Svenskt musikhistoriskt arkiv) from its inception in 1965 until 1980, when he accepted his present position. He was chief editor of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning 1971-1980, associate editor of Sohlmans musiklexikon, 2nd ed., 1974-1979, and has been chair of the editorial committees of Monumenta musicae Svecicae and the Complete Works of Berwald since 1989.
Mr. Lönn served on the IAML board as Secretary General from 1974 to 1983, was President from 1983-1989, and has held various other offices in the Association. Since 1981 he has been President of its Swedish branch, Svenska musikbiblioteks-foreningen, and, in 1995 also became chair of the Swedish Library Association’s committee on cataloguing and subject access. Lönn was elected a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1983, has served on its board since 1991, and is currently one of its vice presidents.