Editing 1953 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 1]] – [[Hank Williams]], country musician, 29
*[[January 18]] – [[Arthur Wood (composer)|Arthur Wood]], composer, 78
*[[February 2]] – [[Gustav Strube]], conductor and composer, 75
*[[March 5]]
**[[E. T. Cook]], organist and composer, 72
**[[Sergei Prokofiev]], composer, 61
*[[March 19]] – [[Irène Bordoni]], singer and actress, 68
*[[March 29]] – [[Arthur Fields]], singer-songwriter, 64
*[[April 23]] – [[Peter DeRose]], Tin Pan Alley composer, 53
*[[April 29]] – [[Alice Prin|Kiki]], "The Queen of [[Montparnasse]]", 51 (drug- and alcohol-related) 
*[[April 30]] – [[Lily Brayton]], musical theatre star, 76
*[[May 10]] – [[Marie Kunkel Zimmerman]], soprano, 88
*[[May 15]] – [[Mabel Love]], dancer, 78
*[[May 16]] – [[Django Reinhardt]], jazz guitarist, 43 (brain hemorrhage)
*[[May 19]] – [[Frank Mullings]], tenor, 72
*[[May 22]] – [[Frederick J. Jackson|Frederick Jackson]], librettist and screenwriter (66)
*[[May 30]] – [[Dooley Wilson]], actor, singer and pianist, 67
*[[June 3]] – [[Florence Price]], composer, 66
*[[June 10]] – [[Grzegorz Fitelberg]], conductor, violinist and composer, 73
*[[June 15]] – [[Frank Tapp]], composer, pianist and conductor
*[[June 21]] – [[Ford Dabney]], composer and vaudevillian, 75
*[[June 25]] – [[Jules Van Nuffel]], musicologist and composer, 70
*[[July 5]] – [[Titta Ruffo]], operatic baritone, 76
*[[July 17]] – [[Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer]], Dutch composer, 65
*[[August 14]] – [[Friedrich Schorr]], operatic bass-baritone, 64
*[[August 29]] – [[Darrell Fancourt]], bass-baritone, 67
*[[September 1]] – [[Jacques Thibaud]], violinist, 72
*[[September 21]] – [[Roger Quilter]], composer, 75
*[[October 3]] – Sir [[Arnold Bax]], composer, 69
*[[October 8]] – [[Kathleen Ferrier]], English contralto, 41 (cancer)
*[[October 18]] – [[Marguerite d'Alvarez]], operatic contralto, exact age unknown
*[[October 27]] – [[Eduard Künneke]], composer, 68
*[[October 29]] – [[William Kapell]], pianist, 31
*[[October 30]] – [[Emmerich Kálmán]], composer, 71
*[[November 10]] – [[Theodora Morse]], lyricist, 70
*[[November 18]] – [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]], composer, 52
*[[November 21]] – [[Larry Shields]], jazz musician, 60
*[[November 26]] – [[Ivor Atkins]], organist and choirmaster, 83
*[[November 30]] – [[Norman Cocker]], organist and composer, 63
*[[December 5]]
**[[Noel Mewton-Wood]], pianist, 31 (suicide by poisoning)
**[[Jorge Negrete]], singer and actor, 42 (hepatitis)
*[[December 9]] – [[Issay Dobrowen]], pianist, conductor and composer, 62
*[[December 11]] – [[Albert Coates (musician)|Albert Coates]], conductor and composer, 71
*[[December 29]] – [[Violet MacMillan]], Broadway star, 66