Editing 1930 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Therese Malten]], German operatic soprano, 74
*[[January 16]] – [[Art Hickman]], American bandleader, 43 (Banti's syndrome)
*[[January 17]] – [[Gauhar Jaan]], Indian singer and dancer, 56
*[[January 24]] – [[Mario Sammarco]], Italian operatic baritone, 61
*[[January 27]] – [[Jean Huré]], composer and organist (born 1877)
*[[January 28]] – [[Emmy Destinn]] Czech operatic soprano, 51 (stroke)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Rachel Cowgill|author2=Hilary Poriss|title=The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ed7QCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA342|date=1 June 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-971083-6|pages=342}}</ref>
*[[February 12]] – [[Eva Dell'Acqua]], Belgian singer and composer, 73
*[[February 13]] – [[Conrad Ansorge]], German pianist, teacher and composer, 67
*[[February 17]] – [[Louise Kirkby Lunn]], English operatic contralto, 56
*[[February 23]] – [[Horst Wessel]], Nazi ideologue and composer, 22<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nicholas John Cull|author2=David Holbrook Culbert|author3=David Welch|title=Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Byzv7rf6gL8C&pg=PA169|year=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-820-4|pages=169}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – [[A. L. Erlanger]], American theatrical impresario, 70
*[[March 13]] – [[August Stradal]], virtouso pianist and composer, 69
*[[March 16]] – [[George Allan (composer)|George Allan]], English arranger and composer, 55
*[[April 1]] – [[Cosima Wagner]], daughter of [[Franz Liszt]] and widow of [[Richard Wagner]], 92<ref>{{cite book|author=Oliver Hilmes|title=Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YW_uE5pBF2QC&pg=PT411|year=2010|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-15215-9|pages=411}}</ref>
*[[April 3]] – [[Emma Albani]], Canadian-British operatic soprano (born 1847)<ref>{{cite book|author=Michelle Labrèche-Larouche|title=Emma Albani: Victorian Diva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzsPX_vICCEC&pg=PA166|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-77070-708-5|pages=166}}</ref>
*[[April 5]] – [[Gene Greene]], singer and composer ("The Ragtime King"), 48
*[[April 9]] – [[Rose Caron]], French operatic soprano, 72<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard T. Soper|title=Belgian Opera Houses and Singers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvoXAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Reprint Company|isbn=978-0-87152-516-1|page=423}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Adele Ritchie]], American singer, comic opera, musical comedy and vaudeville, 55
*[[April 26]] – [[Beth Slater Whitson]], American lyric writer, 50
*[[April 28]] – [[Charles Grandmougin]], lyricist (born 1850)
*[[May 1]] – [[Emil Genetz]], Finnish composer, 77
*[[May 29]] – [[Tivadar Nachéz]], Hungarian violinist and composer, 71
*[[June 5]] – [[Irma Reichová]], Czech operatic soprano, 71
*[[June 7]] – [[Nahan Franko]], American violinist and conductor, 68 
*[[June 22]] – [[Mary Davies (mezzo-soprano)|Mary Davies]], Welsh singer, 75
*[[July 15]] – [[Leopold Auer]], Hungarian violinist, 85<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Jaffé|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65ZrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7980-5|pages=48}}</ref>
*[[August 4]] – [[Siegfried Wagner]], German composer and conductor, son of [[Richard Wagner]], 61<ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Hubert Schönzeler|title=Furtwangler: The Man and His Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvV52ztPWCUC|year=1990|publisher=Duckworth|isbn=978-0-7156-2313-8|page=43}}</ref> 
*[[August 9]] – [[Johnny Burke (Newfoundland songwriter)|Johnny Burke]], Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1851)
*[[August 20]] – [[George John Bennett (organist)|George John Bennett]], English composer (born 1863)
*[[October 1]] – [[Riccardo Drigo]], Italian composer and conductor, 84
*[[October 14]] – [[Henry Creamer]], American songwriter, 51
*[[October 27]] – [[Evan Stephens]], American Mormon composer and hymn-writer, 76
*[[November 13]] – [[Thomas Bulch]], English-born Australian musician and composer, 67
*[[November 14]] – [[Jacques Isnardon]], French operatic bass-baritone, 70
*[[December 17]] – [[Peter Warlock]], English composer, 36<ref>{{cite ODNB|author-link=Barry Smith (organist)|last=Smith|first=Barry|title=Heseltine, Philip Arnold|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33843?docPos=1|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33843 |access-date=2 September 2012}}</ref>
*[[December 22]] – [[Charles K. Harris]], American songwriter and publisher, 63
*[[December 23]] – [[Marie Fillunger]], Austrian singer, 80
*[[December 24]] – [[Oskar Nedbal]], Czech violist, conductor and composer, 56
*[[December 29]] – [[Oscar Borg]], Norwegian composer, 79