Editing 1918 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 10]] – [[Alphonse Maille|Alphonse Mailly]], French composer (born 1833) 
*[[January 19]] – [[Juan José Cañas]], co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
*[[February 7]] – [[Alexander Taneyev]], composer (b. 1850)
*[[February 15]] – [[Miguel Marqués (composer)|Miguel Marqués]] – Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
*[[February 23]] – [[Sophie Menter]] – German composer and pianist (b. 1846)
*[[February 27]] – [[Vasily Safonov]], pianist (born 1852)
*[[March 1]] – [[Emil Sjögren]], lieder composer (b. 1853)
*[[March 2]] – [[Theobald Rehbaum]], violinist (born 1835)
*March (12–15) – [[José White Lafitte]], violinist and composer (b. 1836)
*[[March 13]] – [[César Cui]], music critic and composer (b. 1835)
*[[March 15]] – [[Lili Boulanger]], composer (b. 1893)
*[[March 23]] – [[Théo Ysaÿe]], pianist and composer (b. 1865)
*[[March 25]] – [[Claude Debussy]], composer (b. 1862)
*[[March 26]] –  [[:fr:Charles Clairville|Charles Clairville]], librettist (born 1855)
*[[April 8]] – [[Lucjan Rydel]], Polish lyricist and playwright (b. 1870)
*[[April 13]] – [[David Ffrangcon Davies]], operatic baritone (b. 1855)
*[[April 21]] – [[Antonio Pini-Corsi]], operatic baritone (b. 1859)
*[[May 5]] – [[Bertha Palmer]], writer, musician, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (b. 1849)
*[[May 18]] – [[Toivo Kuula]], conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780674372993|page=474}}</ref>
*[[May 22]] – [[Fritz Seitz]], violinist and composer (b. 1848)
*[[June 9]] – [[Jozsef Angster]], master organ maker (b. 1834)
*[[June 10]] – [[Arrigo Boito]], writer and composer (b. 1842)
*[[July 27]] – [[Gustav Kobbé]], American music critic and author (b. 1857) (killed in sailing accident)
*[[August 12]] – [[Anna Held]], singer (b. 1872)
*[[August 15]] – [[Heinrich Köselitz]], author and composer (b. 1854)
*[[August 26]] – [[Cecil Coles]], composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)<ref>[http://www.bardic-music.com/Coles.htm Brief biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816021557/http://bardic-music.com/Coles.htm|date=2013-08-16}}</ref>
*[[September 7]] – [[Morfydd Llwyn Owen]], singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (complications from surgery for appendicitis)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cleaver |first=Emrys |chapter=Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918) |title=Musicians of Wales |location=Ruthin |publisher=John Jones |year=1968}}</ref>
*[[September 18]] – [[Ernest Farrar]], composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
*[[September 19]] 
**[[Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin|Nikolay Ladukhin]], music theorist and  composer (born 1860)
**[[Liza Lehmann]], operatic soprano and composer (b. 1862)
*[[October 7]] – [[Hubert Parry]], composer (b. 1848)
*[[October 15]] – [[Antonio Cotogni]], operatic baritone (b. 1831)
*[[October 16]] – [[Felix Arndt]], pianist and composer (b. 1889)
*[[October 22]] – [[Charles Peccatte]], archetier (b. 1850)
*[[October 24]]
**[[Charles Lecocq]], composer (b. 1832)
**[[Marianne Scharwenka]], violinist (b. 1856)
*[[October 29]] – [[Rudolf Tobias]], organist and composer (b. 1873)
*[[November 4]] – [[Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán]], ''zarzuela'' composer (b. 1875)
*[[December 13]] – [[Nikolay and Medea Figner|Nikolay Figner]], Russian-Ukrainian lyric tenor (b. 1857)
*''date unknown'' – [[King Watzke]], violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)