Editing 1946 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*[[January 7]] – [[Adamo Didur]], operatic bass, 77
*[[January 10]] – [[Harry Von Tilzer]], songwriter, 73
*[[January 18]] – [[Lew Pollack]], US composer, 50
*[[February 2]] – [[Eduard Bass]], singer and cabaret director, 58
*[[February 15]] – [[Putney Dandridge]], jazz musician, 44
*[[February 20]] – [[Hugh Allen (conductor)|Hugh Allen]], organist and choral conductor, 76
*[[April 5]] – [[Vincent Youmans]], US composer, 47
*[[May 25]] – [[Patty Hill]], co-writer of "Happy Birthday to You", 78
*[[June 1]] – [[Leo Slezak]], operatic tenor, 72
*[[July 14]] – [[Riley Puckett]], country musician, 52 (blood poisoning)
*[[July 20]] – [[Tricky Sam Nanton]], trombonist, 42
*[[August 8]] – [[Maria Barrientos]], coloratura soprano, 63
*[[August 24]] – [[Antonio Paoli]], operatic tenor, 75
*[[August 31]] – [[Paul von Klenau]], Danish composer and conductor, 63
*[[September 3]] – [[Moriz Rosenthal]], pianist, 83
*[[September 4]] – [[Paul Lincke]], composer, 79
*[[September 15]] – {{ill|Cornel Simanjuntak|id}} classical composer, 25
*[[September 16]] – [[Mamie Smith]], vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, 63
*[[October 9]] – [[Enrica Clay Dillon]], American opera singer, opera director, and voice teacher, 65
*[[October 12]] – [[Giuseppe Adami]], opera librettist, 67
*[[October 16]] – Sir [[Granville Bantock]], composer, 78
*[[November 5]] – [[Zygmunt Stojowski]], composer and pianist, 76
*[[November 14]] – [[Manuel de Falla]], composer, 69
*[[November 30]] – [http://www.ragpiano.com/comps/agumble.shtml Albert Gumble], ragtime composer, 63
*[[December 6]] – [[Maximilian Steinberg]], composer and teacher, 63
*[[December 28]] – [[Carrie Jacobs-Bond]], US songwriter, 84
*[[December 30]] – [[Charles Wakefield Cadman]], composer, 65

===Date unknown===

* [[Teddy Brown]], xylophone player (born 1900)
* [[Armanda Degli Abbati]], Italian opera singer (born 1879)
* [[George De Cairos Rego]], Australian composer and music professor (born 1858)
* [[Albert Bokhare Saunders]], Australian composer (born 1880)