Editing 1929 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 11]] – [[Elfrida Andrée]], organist, composer and conductor (born 1841)
*[[January 22]] – [[Adolph Brodsky]], violinist (born 1851)
*[[January 24]] – [[Jacques Bouhy]], baritone opera singer (born 1848)
*[[January 30]] – [[La Goulue]], can-can dancer (born 1866)
*[[February 24]] – [[André Messager]], conductor and composer (born 1853)
*[[March 15]] – [[Pinetop Smith]], jazz pianist (born 1904) (shot, during a fight in a dance hall)
*[[April 3]] – [[:da:Sophus Hagen|Sophus Hagen]], composer and music publisher (born 1842)
*[[April 4]] – [[Édouard Schuré]], poet and music critic (born 1841)
*[[April 12]] – [[Harry Liston]], music hall performer and composer (born 1843)
*[[April 15]] – [[Antonio Smareglia]], opera composer (born 1854)
*[[April 30]] – [[Birger Sjöberg]], poet and songwriter (born 1885)
*[[May 17]] – [[Lilli Lehmann]], operatic soprano (born 1848)
*[[June 2]] – [[Don Murray (clarinetist)|Don Murray]], [[jazz]] clarinettist (born 1894) (car accident)
*[[June 4]] – [[Harry Frazee]], producer of Broadway musicals (born 1881)
*[[July 3]] – [[Dustin Farnum]], singer, dancer and actor (born 1874)
*[[August 3]] – [[Emile Berliner]], inventor of the gramophone (born 1851)
*[[August 19]]
** <!--August 19-->[[Sergei Diaghilev]], ballet impresario (born 1872)
** <!--August 19-->[[Chris Kelly (jazz)|Chris Kelly]], jazz musician (born c. 1890)
** <!--August 19-->[[Meta Seinemeyer]], operatic soprano (born 1894)
*[[August 22]] – [[Lucy Broadwood]], folk song collector and researcher (born 1858)
*[[September 4]] – [[Frederick Freeman Proctor]], vaudeville impresario (born 1851)
*[[September 7]] – [[Frederic Weatherly]], songwriter (born 1848)
*[[October 3]] – [[Jeanne Eagels]], Ziegfeld girl and actress (born 1894)
*[[October 6]] – [[Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov]], operatic tenor (born 1858)
*[[October 14]] – [[Henri Berger]], composer and royal bandmaster of Hawaii (born 1844)
*[[October 17]] – [[Ada Crossley]], singer (born 1874)
*[[October 26]] – [[Swan Hennessy]], composer (born 1866)
*[[October 27]] – [[Alfred Maria Willner]], composer and librettist (born 1859)
*[[December 19]] – [[Blind Lemon Jefferson]], blues musician (born 1893)
*[[December 28]] – [[Hans Kreissig]], pianist and conductor (born 1856)
* ''date unknown''
** [[Antonio Chacón]], flamenco singer (born 1869)
** [[Carl Herman Unthan]], disabled violinist (born 1848)