Editing 1939 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 12]] – [[Hariclea Darclée]], operatic soprano, 78
*[[January 16]] – [[Abe Holzmann]], composer, 64
*[[February 9]] – [[Herschel Evans]], saxophonist, 29 (heart disease)
*[[February 11]] – [[Franz Schmidt (composer)|Franz Schmidt]], cellist, pianist and composer, 64
*[[February 12]] – [[Potenciano Gregorio]], Filipino musician, 58
*[[February 17]] – [[Willy Hess (violinist)|Willy Hess]], violinist, 79
*[[March 6]] – [[Emma Juch]], operatic soprano, 77
*[[March 9]] – [[Ernie Hare]], US singer, 55 (bronchopneumonia)
*[[March 21]] – [[Evald Aav]], Estonian composer, 39
*[[April 8]] – [[Emilio Serrano y Ruiz]], pianist and composer, 89
*[[April 15]] - [[Dorothy Morton]], soprano and actress, 69<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Frederick Conger, Actress, Will Be Buried in Bound Brook|work=[[Home News Tribune|The Daily Home News]]|date=April 17, 1939|page=14}}</ref> 
*[[April 21]]
**[[Herman Finck]], composer, 66
**[[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]], US lyricist, 49
*[[May 20]] – [[Alexandra Čvanová]], operatic soprano, 42 (car accident)
*[[June 4]] – [[Tommy Ladnier]], jazz trumpeter, 39 (heart attack)
*[[June 16]] – [[Chick Webb]], jazz drummer, 34
*[[August 1]] – [[Álvaro Sousa]], composer, 60
*[[August 3]] – [[August Enna]], composer, 80
*[[August 19]] – [[Achille Fortier]], composer, 74
*[[August 25]] – [[Geneviève Vix]], operatic soprano, 60
*[[October 9]] – [[Evelyn Parnell]], operatic soprano, 51 (appendicitis)
*[[October 14]] – [[Polaire]], singer and actress, 65
*[[October 16]] – [[Ludolf Nielsen]], pianist, violinist, conductor and composer, 63
*[[October 19]] – [[Marie Renard]], operatic mezzo-soprano, 75
*[[October 24]] – [[Prince Joachim Albert of Prussia]], composer, 63
*[[October 27]] – [[Nelly Bromley]], singer and actress, 89
*[[October 28]] – [[Alice Brady]], actress, 46
*[[October 29]] – [[Giulio Crimi]], operatic tenor, 54
*[[November 3]] (or 4) – [[Charles Tournemire]], organist and composer, 69
*[[November 9]] – [[Charles Goulding]], operatic tenor (born 1887)
*[[December 6]] – [[Charles Dalmorès]], operatic tenor, 68
*[[December 8]] – [[Ernest Schelling]], pianist, composer and conductor, 63
*[[December 18]]
**[[Jeanne Granier]], operatic soprano, 87
**[[Grikor Suni]], composer, 63
*[[December 22]] – [[Ma Rainey]], blues singer, 53 (heart attack)
*''date unknown''
**[[Francisco de Paula Aguirre]], composer of waltzes (born 1875)
**[[José Perches Enríquez]], composer (born 1883)
**[[Lena Wilson]], blues singer (born 1898)