Editing 1942 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 1]] – [[Jaroslav Ježek (composer)|Jaroslav Ježek]], composer, 35 (kidney disease)
*[[January 2]] – [[Henriette Gottlieb]], operatic soprano, 57
*[[January 4]] – [[Leon Jessel]], composer, 70
*[[January 14]]
**[[Harry Champion]], music hall composer, 76
**[[Fred Fisher]], songwriter, 66
*[[February 15]] – [[Stanislav Binički]], Serbian composer, conductor and music teacher, 69
*[[February 22]]
**[[Vera Timanova]], Russian pianist, 87
**[[Stefan Zweig]], Jewish librettist of [[Richard Strauss]], 60
*[[February 25]]
**[[Leo Ascher]], composer and songwriter, 61
**[[Sidney D. Mitchell]], composer and songwriter, 53
*[[March 2]] – [[Charlie Christian]], jazz guitarist, 25 (tuberculosis)
*[[March 11]] – [[Reginald Stoneham]] songwriter and composer
*[[March 15]] – [[Alexander von Zemlinsky]], conductor and composer, 70
*[[March 20]] – [[Aksel Agerby]], composer, organist, and music administrator, 52
*[[April 3]] – [[Paul Gilson]], composer, 76
*[[April 6]] – [[Lee Orean Smith]], composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor, 67
*[[April 11]] – [[Frederick Hobbs (singer)|Frederick Hobbs]], singer, actor and theatre manager, 61
*[[April 27]] – [[Emil von Sauer]], pianist and composer, 79
*[[May 7]] – [[Felix Weingartner]], editor and conductor, (born 1863)
*[[May 14]] – [[Frank Churchill]], US composer, 40 (suicide)
*[[May 15]] – [[T-Bone Slim]], poet and songwriter (born 1880)
*[[May 26]] – [[Libero Bovio]], Neapolitan lyricist, 68
*[[June 1]] – [[Ernest Pingoud]], composer, 54
*[[June 2]] – [[Bunny Berigan]], jazz trumpeter, 33 (hemorrhage)
*[[June 12]]
**<!--June 12-->[[Ernst Heuser (composer)|Ernst Heuser]], composer, 79
**<!--June 12-->[[Walter Leigh]], composer, 36 (killed in action)
*[[June 17]] – [[Jessie Bond]], singer and actress in Gilbert & Sullivan, 89
*[[June 18]]
**<!--June 18-->[[Arthur Pryor]], trombonist and bandleader, 71
**<!--June 18-->[[Daniel Alomía Robles]], Peruvian composer and musicologist, 71
*[[July 30]]
**[[Jimmy Blanton]], jazz double-bassist, 23 (tuberculosis)
**[[Dorothy Silk]], soprano, 59
*[[August 12]] – [[Pasquale Amato]], operatic baritone, 64
*[[August 18]] – [[Erwin Schulhoff]], pianist and composer, 48 (tuberculosis)
*[[August 22]] – [[Michel Fokine]], dancer and choreographer, 62
*[[August 28]] – [[Caleb Simper]], organist and composer, 85
*[[September 9]] – [[William Murdoch (pianist)|William Murdoch]], arranger and pianist (born 1888)
*[[October 7]] – [[Norman Gale]], lyricist and writer (born 1862)
*[[October 15]] – Dame [[Marie Tempest]], opera and musical comedy singer, 78
*[[October 23]] – [[Ralph Rainger]], US composer and pianist, 41 (air crash)
*[[November 1]] – [[Hugo Distler]], composer, 34 (suicide)
*[[November 5]] – [[George M. Cohan]], songwriter and music hall star, 64
*[[November 24]] – [[Peadar Kearney]], lyricist of the Irish national anthem, 58
*[[December 3]] – [[Wilhelm Peterson-Berger]], Swedish composer (born 1867)
*[[December 18]] – [[António D'Andrade]], opera singer, 88
*[[December 20]] – [[Jean Gilbert]], composer and conductor, 63
*[[December 21]] – [[Francis Bousquet]], French composer of classical music, 52
*[[December 23]] – [[Konstantin Balmont]], dedicatee and lyricist, 75
*[[December 25]] – [[George L. Cobb]], ragtime composer, 56