Anu Schaper studied German Language and Literature at the University of Tartu as well as musicology at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the University of Freiburg (MA from the University of Tartu and from the University of Freiburg). Since 2008 she has been a research fellow at EAMT; she is editor of the scientific journal Res Musica. Her research area is the music and musical life of the 17th century, especially in the Baltics; she is currently working on a thesis about Johann Valentin Meder (1649–1719).