Editing 1947 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[Gus Wickie]], singer and voice actor, 61
*[[January 11]] – [[Eva Tanguay]], singer, vaudeville star, 67
*[[January 16]]
**<!--January 16-->[[Sonny Berman]], jazz trumpeter, 21 (suspected drug overdose)
**<!--January 16-->[[Fate Marable]], jazz pianist and bandleader, 56 (pneumonia)
*[[January 19]] – [[Rod Evans]] ([[Deep Purple]])
*[[January 26]] – [[Grace Moore]], operatic soprano, 48 (plane crash)
*[[January 28]] – [[Reynaldo Hahn]], French composer and conductor, 71
*[[February 5]] – [[Salvatore Cardillo]], songwriter, 72
*[[February 6]] – [[Luigi Russolo]], composer, 61
*[[February 22]] – [[Fannie Charles Dillon]], composer, 65<ref>{{cite book|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1996|page=143|isbn=978-0-33351-598-3}}</ref>
*[[March 5]] – [[Alfredo Casella]], composer, 63
*[[March 28]] – [[Rudolph Simonsen]], composer, 57
*[[April 22]] – [[Charles Friant]], tenor, 57
*[[May 2]] – [[Louie Henri]], singer and actress, 83
*[[May 6]] – [[Louise Homer]], operatic contralto, 76
*[[May 27]] – [[Claire Croiza]], mezzo-soprano and singing teacher, 64
*[[May 30]] – [[Georg Ludwig von Trapp]], head of the singing von Trapp family, 67
*[[July 1]] – [[Clarence Lucas]], composer and conductor, 80
*[[July 12]] – [[Jimmie Lunceford]], jazz saxophonist and bandleader, 45 (cardiac arrest)
*[[July 13]] – [[Marcel Varnel]], Broadway director, 52 (car crash)
*[[July 15]] – [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]], songwriter, 54
*[[July 24]] – [[Ernest Austin]], English composer, 72
*[[September 18]] – [[Bert Kalmar]], lyricist, 63<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Furia|title=American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLc7AQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6009-3|page=302}}</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[Francisco Santiago]], "Father of Kundiman Art Song", 58
*[[September 29]] – [[Jan Hambourg]], violinist, 65
*[[October 6]]
**[[Janet Fairbank]], opera singer, 44 (leukaemia)<ref>{{cite book|author=Ned Rorem|title=The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem|url=https://archive.org/details/parisdiaryofnedr00rore|url-access=registration|year=1966|publisher=G. Braziller|page=[https://archive.org/details/parisdiaryofnedr00rore/page/9 9]}}</ref>
**[[Leevi Madetoja]], composer
*[[October 30]] – [[Syech Albar]]
*[[November 14]] – [[Joseph Allard (fiddler)|Joseph Allard]], French-Canadian fiddler, 74
*[[November 16]] – [[Carl Adolph Preyer]], compose, pianist, 83
*[[November 26]] – [[John McKenna (flautist)|John McKenna]], traditional [[Irish flute]] player, 67
*[[November 28]] – [[Georg Schnéevoigt]], conductor and composer, 75
*[[December 14]] – [[Will Fyffe]], Scottish comedian and singer, 62
*[[December 16]] – [[Cesare Sodero]], conductor, 61
*''date unknown'' –
**[[Ilia Trilling]], Yiddish theatre producer and composer