Editing 1909 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 15]] – [[Ernest Reyer]], composer and music critic (b. 1823)
*[[March 21]] – [[Rudolf von Gottschall]], lyricist and poet (born 1823)
*[[March 22]] – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of [[Ferenc Erkel]]
*[[March 25]] – [[Ruperto Chapí]], composer (b. 1851)
*[[May 6]] – [[Fanny Cerrito]], ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1817)
*[[May 19]] – [[Isaac Albéniz]], Spanish composer (born 1860)
*[[May 20]] – [[Ernest Hogan]], ragtime musician (b. 1865)
*[[June 1]] – [[Giuseppe Martucci]], composer and conductor
*[[June 7]] – [[P. W. Halton]], conductor (b. 1841)
*[[July 19]] – [[Leopold Rosenfeld]], composer (b. 1849)
*[[August 17]] – [[Richard Hoffman (composer)|Richard Hoffman]], composer and pianist (b. 1831)
*[[October 6]] – [[Dudley Buck]], organist, composer and music writer (b. 1839)
*[[October 13]] – [[Julius Ruthardt]], violinist and composer (b. 1841)
*[[November 8]] – [[Charles Bordes]], composer (b. 1863)
*[[November 10]] – [[Ludvig Schytte]], Danish composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1848)
*[[November 16]] – [[Francis Thomé]], pianist and composer (b. 1850)
*[[December 11]] – [[Domenico Salvatori]], ''castrato'' singer (b. 1855)
*[[December 15]] – [[Francisco Tárrega]], guitarist and composer (b. 1852) 
*''date unknown''
**[[August Jaeger]], music publisher (b. 1860)
**[[Katharine Purvis]], lyricist of "[[When The Saints Go Marching In]]"
**[[Pallavi Seshayyar]], Carnatic music composer (b. 1842)
**[[Ivan Vsevolozhsky]], director of the Imperial Theatres of Russia

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