At the first official meeting, May 4, Nataniel Berg is elected as chairman. Copyright legislation, with the exception of dance music being protected, is approved May 30.

The Society establishes the Swedish Performing Rights Society (Stim), without personal liability. Constituent meeting, September 24. Eric Westberg, Managing Director.

Contracts are established and signed with restaurants, cinemas, and orchestral societies in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Norrköping and Gävle.

The cultural and subsidiary funds of the Swedish Performing Rights Society, established as a means of supporting Swedish music, are partially financed through national appropriations in accordance with the international convention.

Authorship law is revised and includes the protection of dance music as well. The Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers (Skap) is founded on the initiative of Fred Winter.

The Society participates in the Nordic Music Festival in Stockholm, the first in Stockholm since 1897.

Negotiations regarding contract norms are initiated with publishers.

The first orchestral catalogue is printed. Edition Suecia is founded. A brochure,The Stockholm Concert Hall and Concert Society, is published in a call for more Swedish music at concerts.

Transparent manuscript paper – revolutionizing copying procedures – is made available for members.

The Society is restructured as a registered subsidiary society. Funding is earmarked for stipends as a supplement to the state-sponsored composer grants.

20 000 SEK are awarded as relief funding to the Swedish Musicians’ Union. In return for this, the union eases the restrictions placed upon the recording of Swedish music. A similar arrangement is agreed upon on an annual basis until 1943.

Conference rooms and club premises (“Kryptan”) are inaugurated at Tegnérlunden 3, the newly purchased property of Stim.

At the insistence of the Society of Swedish Music Publishers, the Society takes the initiative in creating Musikens Vecka (Week of Music), which later becomes Musikfrämjandet (the Promotion of Music). Constituent meeting, July 20.

At the request of Stim, His Royal Majesty appoints an inspector to review Stim’s business operations. Judge of appeal, J. H. E. Nordenfalk, is chosen as public supervisor.

The Society is restructured as a non-profit organization, FST.

Stim is reorganized. The State appoints a chairman and two members of the board (with their respective deputy members).

Publishing operations are expanded, now including the printing of manuscripts. Published works are presented at informal concerts at Kryptan. Sven Wilson becomes the managing director of Stim.

Copyright protection is tentatively extended to fifty years, according to “Lex Sjögren”. The Nordic Composers’ Council is founded, thereby initiating new discussions regarding a mutual Nordic contract norm.

The Nordic Music Days are held in Stockholm.

Music for hire also covers manuscripts. With the support of market funding, the first gramophone recording is made.

As agreed upon with The Free Library of Philadelphia, Swedish scores are submitted for marketing purposes in the United States.

An agreement is reached with Breitkopf & Härtel for the marketing and distribution of Edition Suecia’s publications in Germany.

The Stockholm Festival, established in consultation with the Society, is inaugurated.

Members in Gothenburg create a local branch, Gothenburg Society of Composers.

The Council of Publication and Marketing is established at Stim, consisting of three representatives.

At a meeting with teachers from Musikhögskolan (Royal College of Music), a reference library is submitted covering Swedish educational music.

New copyright legislation is passed by the Parliament, extending the length of copyright protection to fifty years. KLYS (The Swedish Joint Committee for Artistic and Literary Professionals) is founded. The Nordic Music Days are held in Stockholm.

The first orchestral (experimental) studio for young composers is established in collaboration with the Symphony Orchestra of Norrköping. The amount of state-sponsored grants for composers is raised from 80 000 SEK to 230 000 SEK.

The Cooperation Council of Stim – subsequently becoming the Swedish Music Information Center – is established, based primarily on the existing positions of chief librarian of reference and the listening studio.

Five composers are recipients of the newly established state awards for artists.

Four representatives are appointed to Stim’s recently founded Swedish Music Information Center. Emphasis is placed upon gramophone recording, with the recording producer becoming affiliated with the Information Center.

Composers are invited to write a work specifically for recording purposes. The recordings are to be published in connection with the Society’s fiftieth anniversary in 1968. The Information Center assumes control of Edition Suecia.

FST’s fiftieth anniversary is celebrated with a reception at Kryptan, a banquet at Anglais, record release, etc. Along with Fylkingen, a foundation, FylFST, is founded, serving as a sponsor of Elektronmusikstudion EMS. The Nordic Music Days are held in Stockholm.

After reaching an agreement with Skap and Smff, the present genre classification – consisting of three genres – is accepted.

A BONUS agreement, regulating the use of photocopying in schools, is reached for the first time between FST/Skap/Smff and the government. The foundation, FylFST, is dissolved.

Swedish Music Spring is held for the first time (in Stockholm). An agreement is reached with the Swedish Writers’ Union concerning the use of literary texts in music. The Swedish Arts Grants Committee is founded and assumes administration of the state composer grants from the Royal Swedish Academy.

The Sixtieth anniversary of the Society is celebrated at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Agreement with the National Theaters’ Union (Teatrarnas Riksförbund) concerning the compensation of commissioned works is finally reached, after several years of negotiations. The Nordic Music Days are held in Stockholm.

The offices of the Society, along with Stim’s Music Information Center, move from Tegnérlunden to Birger Jarlsgatan 6. The Information Center changes its name to Swedish Music Information Center (Svensk Musik).

A new contract norm is determined after negotiations between FST/Skap and the Society of Music Publishers. Agreement between FST/Skap/Smff and the Association of Local Authorities (Kommunförbundet) is reached concerning the photocopying of music in the County Schools of Music (Kommunala Musikskolor).

The book, Composers in Sweden (Tonsättare i Sverige), leading to debate and discussion, is released.

The offices of FST, along with those of Stim and Swedish Music, move to new facilities at Sandhamnsgatan 79.

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, at the request of FST, is reorganized into three parties, with the working party for composers assuming responsibility for the state-sponsored grants. After several years of negotiating between FST, Skap and Smff, an agreement is reached regarding the distribution of the BONUS funds. Swedish Music uses new copying technology, with the result that works written on paper may now be submitted for registration.