Editing 1931 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 5]] – [[C.G. Conn|Colonel Charles Gerard Conn]], instrument manufacturer (born 1884)
*[[January 9]] – [[James Frederick Swift]], organist and composer (born 1847)
*[[January 21]] – [[Felix Blumenfeld]], pianist, conductor and composer (born 1863)
*[[January 23]] – [[Anna Pavlova]], ballerina (born 1881)<ref>{{cite book|first=Frank N.|last=Magill|title=Great Lives from History: Mas-Ror|location=Pasadena|publisher=Salem Press|year=1990|page=1814|isbn=978-0-89356-569-5}}</ref>
*[[February 16]] – [[Dirk Schäfer]], pianist and composer (born 1873)
*[[February 23]]
**<!--February 23-->[[Mario Ancona]], ''bel canto'' baritone (born 1860)
**<!--February 23-->Dame [[Nellie Melba]], operatic soprano (born 1861)
*[[March 25]] – [[Tomasz Bartkiewcz]], organist and composer (born 1865)
*[[April 4]] – [[George Whitefield Chadwick]], composer (born 1854)
*[[May 8]]
**<!--May 8-->[[Bertha Lewis]], singer and actress with the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] (born 1887) (car accident)
**<!--May 8-->[[Paolo Litta]], composer (born 1871)
*[[May 12]] – [[Eugène Ysaÿe]], violinist and composer (born 1858)
*[[May 13]] – [[Josif Marinković]], composer (born 1851)
*[[June 18]] – [[Fanny Holland]], singer and actress (born 1847)
*[[June 21]] – [[Jimmy Blythe]], jazz pianist (born 1901)
*[[July 2]] – [[Charles Quef]], organist and composer (born 1873)
*[[July 4]] – [[Buddy Petit]], jazz cornet player (born c. 1890)
*[[July 23]] – [[William Wolstenholme]], organist and composer (born 1865)
*[[August 6]] – [[Bix Beiderbecke]], jazz musician (born 1903)
*[[August 11]] – [[Linda Loredo]], dancer (born 1907)
*[[August 19]] – [[Francisco Cimadevilla González]], guitarist and composer (born 1861)
*[[August 22]] – [[Joseph Tabrar]], songwriter (born 1857)
*[[August 26]] – [[Heinrich Grünfeld]], cellist (born 1855)
*[[August 28]] – [[Jane Green (singer)|Jane Green]] singer (born 1897)
*[[September 3]] – [[Franz Schalk]], conductor (born 1863)
*[[September 6]] – [[Juliana Walanika]], the "Hawaiian Nightingale", court singer (born 1846)
*[[September 10]] – [[Alfonso Rendano]], pianist, inventor of the "third pedal" (born 1853)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sir George Grove|author2=Eric Blom|author3=Denis Stevens|title=Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJErAAAAMAAJ|year=1954|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=9780333191743|access-date=2018-12-30|archive-date=2024-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429070431/https://books.google.com/books?id=eJErAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
*[[September 20]] – [[Ugo Falena]], opera librettist (born 1875)
*[[September 23]]
**<!--September 23-->[[Harry Macdonough]], pioneer recording artist (born 1871)
**<!--September 23-->[[Adolf Weidig]], composer (born 1867)
*[[October 3]] – [[Carl Nielsen]], composer (born 1865)
*[[October 8]] – [[Luigi von Kunits]], violinist, conductor and composer (born 1870)
*[[October 18]] – [[Thomas Edison]], inventor of the [[phonograph]] (born 1847)
*[[October 20]] – [[Emánuel Moór]], pianist, composer and inventor of the Duplex-Coupler Grand Pianoforte (born 1863)
*[[October 21]] – [[Barbecue Bob]], blues musician (born 1902)
*[[October 29]] – [[Luciano Gallet]], composer (born 1893)
*[[November 4]] – [[Buddy Bolden]], jazz musician (born 1877)
*[[November 17]] – [[Georgi Atanasov (composer)|Georgi Atanasov]], composer (born 1882)
*[[November 19]] – [[Frederic Cliffe]], composer (born 1857)
*[[November 23]] – [[Leonora Braham]], operatic soprano and actress (Gilbert & Sullivan) (born 1853)
*[[December 2]] – [[Vincent d'Indy]], composer (born 1851)