Editing 1950 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 1]] – [[Kate Carney]], English singer and comedian (born 1869)
*[[January 2]] – [[Theophrastos Sakellaridis]], Greek composer and conductor (born 1883)
*[[January 13]] – [[Dimitrios Semsis]], Greek violinist (born 1883)
*[[January 28]] – [[Kansas Joe McCoy]], American blues musician and songwriter (born 1905)
*[[February 10]] – [[Armen Tigranian]], Armenian composer (born 1879)
*[[February 26]] – Sir [[Harry Lauder]], Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter (born 1870)
*[[February 28]] – [[E. A. Couturier|Ernst Abert Couturier]], cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer (born 1869)
*[[March 2]] – [[Milton Schwarzwald]], film director and composer (born 1891)
*[[March 8]] – [[Jaroslav Kocián]], violinist, composer and teacher (born 1883)
*[[April 2]] – [[Adolf Wiklund (musician)|Adolf Wiklund]], Swedish composer (born 1879)
*[[April 3]] – [[Kurt Weill]], composer in many styles (born 1900)<ref>{{cite book|last=Mercado|first=Mario R.|title=Kurt Weill: A Guide to His Works|publisher=Kurt Weill Foundation for Music|year=1989}}</ref>
*[[April 8]] – [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], ballet dancer (born 1889/90)
*[[April 23]] – [[Gemma Bellincioni]], operatic soprano (born 1864)
*[[April 27]] — [[Karl Straube]], German organist (born [[1873 in music|1873]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Straube, Karl|encyclopedia=Deutsche Biographie|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz106765.html|access-date=2021-08-30|language=de}}</ref>
*[[May 7]] – [[Bertha "Chippie" Hill]], blues singer and vaudeville performer (born 1905)
*[[May 13]] – [[Pauline de Ahna]], operatic soprano (born 1863)
*[[May 27]] – [[Auguste Aramini]], French singer (born 1875)
*[[June 9]] – [[Joe Burke (composer)|Joe Burke]], pianist and composer (born 1884)
*[[June 26]] – [[Antonina Nezhdanova]], coloratura soprano (born 1873)
*[[July 1]] – [[Émile Jaques-Dalcroze]], developer of [[eurhythmics]] (born 1865)
*[[July 7]] – [[Fats Navarro]], jazz musician (born 1923)
*[[July 11]] – [[Buddy DeSylva]], songwriter (born 1895)
*[[July 26]] – [[Papa Charlie McCoy]], blues musician (born 1909)
*[[July 30]] – [[Guilhermina Suggia]], cellist (born 1885)
*[[August 3]] – [[Georg Høeberg]], composer and conductor (born 1872)
*[[August 8]] – [[Nikolai Myaskovsky]], Soviet composer and teacher of [[Poland|Polish]] birth (born 1881)
*[[August 26]] – [[Giuseppe De Luca]], operatic baritone (born 1876)
*[[September 5]] – [[Al Killian]], trumpeter and bandleader (born 1916)
*[[September 20]] – [[Georges Mager]], trumpet player (born 1885)
*[[October 11]] – [[Emil Votoček]], chemist, composer and music theorist (born 1862)
*[[October 15]] – [[Clément Doucet]], pianist (born 1895)
*[[October 23]] – [[Al Jolson]], singer and actor (born 1886)
*[[October 26]] – [[Evelyn Suart]], English pianist (born 1881)
*[[November 20]] – [[Francesco Cilea]], opera composer (born 1866)
*[[November 23]] – [[Percival Mackey]], English pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1894)
*[[December 2]] – [[Dinu Lipatti]], Romanian pianist and composer (born 1917; [[Hodgkin's lymphoma|Hodgkin's disease]])<ref>[http://www.markainley.com/music/classical/lipatti/prince_of_pianists.html Prince of Pianists | Lipatti | Classical Music | Mark Ainley<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022165810/http://www.markainley.com/music/classical/lipatti/prince_of_pianists.html |date=October 22, 2015 }}</ref>
*[[December 9]] – [[Georg Hann]], operatic bass-baritone (born 1897)
*[[December 22]] – [[Julius Weismann]], German composer and conductor (born 1879)
*[[December 26]] – [[Ben Black (composer)|Ben Black]], songwriter and impresario (born 1889)
*[[December 28]] – [[Charles L. Johnson]], composer of ragtime and popular music (born 1876)
*[[December 31]] – [[Charles Koechlin]], composer and teacher (born 1867)
*''date unknown''
**[[Jaime de Angulo]], ethnomusicologist (born 1887)
**[[Edouard Espinosa]], dancer, choreographer and teacher (born 1871)
**[[Cenobio Hernandez]], composer (born 1863)
**[[Ray Perry]], jazz musician (born 1915)<ref>{{cite book|title=Musician, Player and Listener|publisher=Amordian Press|year=1978|page=45}}</ref>