Editing 1948 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 8]] – [[Richard Tauber]], operatic tenor, 56 (lung cancer)
*[[January 15]] – [[Jack Guthrie]], popular singer, 32 (tuberculosis)
*[[January 21]] – [[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari]], composer of comic operas, 72
*[[January 26]] – [[Ignaz Friedman]], pianist and composer, 65
*[[January 31]] – [[John Arthur St. Oswald Dykes]], pianist and teacher, 84
*[[February 21]] – [[Frederic Lamond (pianist)|Frederic Lamond]], pianist, 80
*[[April 21]] – [[Carlos López Buchardo]], composer, 66
*[[April 24]] – [[Manuel Ponce]], composer, 65
*[[April 25]] – [[Fritz Crome]], composer and music writer, 68
*[[May 12]] – [[Isidor Achron]], Polish-American pianist and composer, 55
*[[May 17]]
**[[David Evans (composer)|David Evans]], Welsh composer, 74
**[[Olga Samaroff]], American pianist and music critic, 67
*[[June 1]] – [[José Vianna da Motta]], pianist and composer, 80
*[[June 6]] – [[Henning Jakob Henrik Lund|Henrik Lund]], lyricist, 72
*[[June 14]] – [[John Blackwood McEwen]], Scottish composer and educator, 80
*[[June 17]] – [[Beryl Wallace]], singer, dancer and actress, 35 (aviation accident)
*[[June 20]] – [[George Frederick Boyle]], composer, 61
*[[June 27]] – [[George Templeton Strong (composer)|George Templeton Strong]], composer, 92
*[[August 10]]
**[[Lucille Bogan]], blues singer, 51 (coronary sclerosis)
**[[Emmy Hennings]], cabaret performer, 63
*[[August 13]] – [[Elaine Hammerstein]], Broadway star, 51 (car accident)
*[[August 20]] – [[David John de Lloyd]], composer, 65
*[[September 3]] – [[Mutt Carey]], jazz trumpeter, 61
*[[September 12]] – [[Rupert D'Oyly Carte]], impresario, 70
*[[September 14]] – [[Vernon Dalhart]], country singer, 65
*[[October 25]] – [[Boris Fomin]], Russian folk composer, 48 (tuberculosis)
*[[October 10]] – [[Mary Eaton]], dancer, 47 (liver failure)
*[[October 24]] – [[Franz Lehár]], composer, 78
*[[November 9]] – [[Euphemia Allen]], composer, 87
*[[November 12]] – [[Umberto Giordano]], composer, 81
*[[December 2]] – [[Chano Pozo]], percussionist, 33 (murdered)
*[[December 5]] – [[Kerry Mills]], US violinist and songwriter, 79
*[[December 10]] – [[Francesco Bartolomeo de Leone]], composer, 61
*[[December 14]] – [[R. O. Morris]], British composer and teacher, 62
*[[December 18]] – [[William Arms Fisher]], music historian, 87
*[[December 22]] – [[Donald Brian]], actor, dancer and singer, 71