Editing 1926 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Franz Stockhausen]], choral conductor (b. 1839)
*[[January 6]] – [[Émile Paladilhe]], composer, 81
*[[January 23]] – [[Joseph Carl Breil]], American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor, 55 (heart disease)
*[[January 26]] – [[Franz Kneisel]], violinist, 61
*[[January 31]] – [[Arthur Ivan Allin]], violinist, 78
*[[February 5]] – [[André Gedalge]], composer and music teacher, 69
*[[March 3]]
**[[Julius Epstein (pianist)|Julius Epstein]], pianist, 93
**[[Eugenia Mantelli]], operatic contralto, 65
*[[March 15]] – [[Aglaja Orgeni]], coloratura soprano, 84
*[[March 26]] – [[Franz Kneisel]], violinist, 61
*[[May 8]] – [[Rida Johnson Young]], songwriter and librettist (b. 1869)
*[[May 16]] - [[Joe Slater (composer)]] Songwriter and vaudeville artist
*[[May 21]] – [[Georgy Catoire]], composer (b. 1861)
*[[May 23]] – [[Hans von Koessler]], composer (b. 1853)
*[[May 29]] – [[Antonín Bennewitz]], violinist, 93
*[[June 4]] – [[Carolina Ferni]], violinist and operatic soprano, 79
*[[June 6]] – [[Henry Tate (poet)|Henry Tate]], poet and musician, 52
*[[June 11]] – [[Louis Fleury]], flautist (b. 1878)
*[[June 22]] – [[Hermann Suter]], conductor and composer, 56
*[[July 12]] – [[Charles Wood (composer)|Charles Wood]], composer, 60
*[[July 26]] – [[Ella Adayevskaya]], pianist, composer and ethnomusicologist, 80
*[[September 27]] – [[Marcelle Lender]], French singer-dancer and entertainer, 64
*[[October 15]] – [[Mathilde Bauermeister]], opera singer, 77
*[[November 2]] – [[John Le Hay]], singer and actor, 72
*[[November 4]] – [[Robert Newman (impresario)|Robert Newman]], co-founder of the Proms, 68
*[[December 25]] – [[Pablo Valenzuela]], Cuban cornet player and bandleader, 67
*[[December 27]] – [[Amalia Riégo]], operatic soprano, 76
*''date unknown''
**[[Edmund Jenkins]], composer (b. 1894)
**[[Veene Sheshanna]], [[Veena]] player (b. 1852)