Editing 1945 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Michael Coleman (Irish musician)|Michael Coleman]], fiddle player (born [[1891 in music|1891]])
*[[January 17]] – [[Malcolm McEachern]], operatic bass (born [[1883 in music|1883]])
*[[January 30]] – [[Herbert L. Clarke]], cornet virtuoso and composer (born 1867)
*February – [[David Beigelman]], violinist, orchestra leader and composer (born [[1887 in music|1887]]) (murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp)
*[[February 5]] – [[Volga Hayworth]], showgirl (born [[1897 in music|1897]])
*[[February 7]] – [[Aldo Finzi (composer)|Aldo Finzi]], composer (born 1897)
*[[February 11]] – [[Al Dubin]], songwriter (born [[1891 in music|1891]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Mário de Andrade]], writer and musicologist (born [[1893 in music|1893]])
*[[March 2]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Lemire]], composer (born [[1867 in music|1867]])
*[[March 3]] – [[Blanche Arral]], operatic soprano (born [[1864 in music|1864]])
*[[April 1]] – [[May Beatty]], New Zealand singer (born [[1880 in music|1880]])
*[[April 4]] – [[Berta Bock]], Romanian composer (born [[1857 in music|1857]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Raffaello Squarise]], violinist, conductor and composer (born [[1856 in music|1856]])
*[[April 19]] – [[Alois Burgstaller]], operatic tenor (born [[1872 in music|1872]])
*[[April 25]]
** [[Huldreich Georg Früh]], Swiss composer (born [[1903 in music|1903]]) 
**[[Elmer Samuel Hosmer]], composer (born [[1862 in music|1862]])
**[[Teddy Weatherford]], jazz pianist (born [[1903 in music|1903]]) (cholera)
*[[April 29]] – [[Dezso d'Antalffy]], Hungarian organist and composer (born [[1885 in music|1885]])
*[[May 15]] – [[Kenneth J. Alford]], band composer (born [[1881 in music|1881]])
*[[May 31]] – [[Gustave Huberdeau]], operatic bass-baritone (born [[1874 in music|1874]])
*[[June 8]] - [[T. Mayo Geary]], songwriter and music publishing executive (born  [[1879 in music|1879]])<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/details/variety158-1945-06/page/n110/mode/1up?q=Geary|title=Obituaries: Thomas Mayo Geary|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=June 13, 1945|page=59}}</ref>
*[[June 26]] – [[Nikolai Tcherepnin]], composer (born [[1873 in music|1873]])
*[[June 28]] – [[Jonny Heykens]], Dutch composer and orchestra leader (born [[1884 in music|1884]])
*[[July 24]] – [[Rosina Storchio]], operatic soprano (born [[1876 in music|1876]])
*[[August 2]]
**<!--August 2-->[[Pietro Mascagni]], composer (born [[1863 in music|1863]])
**<!--August 2-->[[Emil von Reznicek]], composer (born [[1860 in music|1860]])
*[[August 19]] – [[Carl Wilhelm Kern]], pianist and composer (born 1874)
*[[August 23]] – [[Leo Borchard]], conductor (born [[1899 in music|1899]]) (shot)
*[[August 31]] – [[Elsa Stralia]], operatic soprano (born [[1881 in music|1881]])
*[[September 8]] – [[Leo Rich Lewis]], American composer (born [[1865 in music|1865]]
*[[September 10]] – [[Väinö Raitio]], Finnish composer (born [[1891 in music|1891]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Anton Webern]], Austrian composer (born 1883) (shot)
*[[September 16]] – [[John McCormack (tenor)|John McCormack]], Irish tenor (born 1884)
*[[September 18]] – [[Blind Willie Johnson]], American gospel singer and guitarist (born 1897) (pneumonia)
*[[September 25]] – [[Julius Korngold]], Austrian music critic (born 1860)
*[[September 26]] – [[Béla Bartók]], Hungarian composer (born 1881)
*[[October 9]] – [[Fernando Obradors]], Spanish composer (born 1896)
*[[October 16]] – [[James V. Monaco]], Italian-born US composer (born 1885)
*[[November 3]] – [[Alessandro Longo]], composer and musicologist (born 1864)
*[[November 7]] – [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]], Prussian-born US songwriter, entertainer and producer (born [[1879 in music|1879]])
*[[November 11]] – [[Jerome Kern]], composer (born 1885) (cerebral haemorrhage)
*[[December 24]] – [[Adelina Stehle]], operatic soprano (born 1860)
*[[December 30]] – [[France Ačko]], Slovenian organist and composer (born [[1904 in music|1904]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Viktor Selyavin]], operatic tenor (born [[1875 in music|1875]])
**[[Joseph Fournier de Belleval]], operatic baritone and music teacher (born [[1892 in music|1892]])