Editing 1949 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 14]]&nbsp;– [[Joaquín Turina]], composer, 66
*[[January 19]]&nbsp;– [[Charles Price Jones]], hymn-writer, 83
*[[February 1]]&nbsp;– [[Herbert Stothart]], conductor and composer, 63
*[[February 1]]&nbsp;– [[George Botsford]], composer, 74
*[[February 11]]&nbsp;– [[Giovanni Zenatello]], opera tenor, 73
*[[March 7]]&nbsp;– [[Sol Bloom]], music industry entrepreneur, 78
*[[March 20]]&nbsp;– [[Irving Fazola]], jazz clarinetist, 36 (heart attack)
*[[March 28]]&nbsp;– [[Grigoraş Dinicu]], violinist and composer, 59
*[[April 3]]&nbsp;– [[Basil Harwood]], organist and composer, 89
*[[May 6]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], translator and lyricist, 86
*[[May 10]]&nbsp;– [[Emilio de Gogorza]], operatic baritone, 74
*[[May 22]] – [[Hans Pfitzner]], German composer (born 1869)
*[[June 2]]&nbsp;– [[Dynam-Victor Fumet]], organist and composer, 82
*[[June 4]]&nbsp;– [[Erwin Lendvai]], composer and conductor, 66
*[[June 9]]&nbsp;– [[Maria Cebotari]], operatic soprano, 39 (cancer)
*[[June 20]]&nbsp;– [[Ramón Montoya]], flamenco guitarist, 69
*[[July 7]]&nbsp;– [[Bunk Johnson]], jazz trumpeter, exact age unknown
*[[July 9]]&nbsp;– [[Fritz Hart]], composer, 75
*[[July 18]]&nbsp;– [[Vítězslav Novák]], composer, 78
*[[August 30]]&nbsp;– [[Hans Kindler]], cellist, 57
*[[September 5]]&nbsp;– [[Walter Widdop]], operatic tenor, 51
*[[September 8]]&nbsp;– [[Richard Strauss]], composer, 85
*[[September 11]]&nbsp;– [[Michael Hayvoronsky]], violinist, conductor and composer (born 1892)
*[[September 12]]&nbsp;– [[Harry Burleigh|Harry T. Burleigh]], composer and singer
*[[September 19]]&nbsp;– [[Nikos Skalkottas]], Greek composer, student of [[Arnold Schoenberg]]
*[[September 24]]&nbsp;– [[Pierre de Bréville]], composer, 88
*[[September 28]]&nbsp;– [[Nancy Dalberg]], Danish composer, 68
*[[October 1]]&nbsp;– [[Buddy Clark]], American singer, 38 (plane crash)
*[[October 4]]
**<!--October 4-->[[Edmund Eysler]], Austrian composer, 75
**<!--October 4-->[[Chris Smith (composer)|Chris Smith]], composer, 69
*[[October 20]]&nbsp;– [[Sam Collins (musician)|Sam Collins]], blues singer and guitarist, 62
*[[October 27]]&nbsp;– [[Ginette Neveu]], violin virtuoso, 30 (plane crash)
*[[October 28]]&nbsp;– [[Rosalie Housman]], composer, 61
*[[November 25]]&nbsp;– [[Bill Robinson|Bill "Bojangles" Robinson]], American tap dancer, singer and actor
*[[December 6]]&nbsp;– [[Lead Belly]], folk and blues musician, 61
*[[December 11]]&nbsp;– [[Fiddlin' John Carson]], country musician, 81
*[[December 17]]&nbsp;– [[David Stanley Smith (composer)|David Stanley Smith]], composer and arranger (born 1877)
*[[December 28]]&nbsp;– [[Ivie Anderson]], jazz singer, 44 (asthma)
*''date unknown''
**[[Alice Cucini]], operatic contralto (born 1870)
**[[King Solomon Hill]] (Joe Holmes), blues musician (born 1897)
**[[Lee S. Roberts]], composer and pianist (born 1885)
**[[Hooper Brewster-Jones]] composer and pianist