Editing 1979 in music (section)

==Deaths==
* [[January 5]] – [[Charles Mingus]], jazz musician, 56<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bob Macken|author2=Peter Fornatale|author3=Bill Ayres|title=The Rock Music Source Book|url=https://archive.org/details/rockmusicsourceb00mack|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1980|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0-385-14139-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/rockmusicsourceb00mack/page/631 631]}}</ref>
* [[January 13]]
** [[Donny Hathaway]], singer, 33 (injuries from fall)<ref>{{cite book
| first    = John
| last     = Tobler
| year     = 1992
| title    = NME Rock 'N' Roll Years
| edition  = 1st
| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd
| location = London
| page     = 322
| id       = CN 5585}}</ref>
** [[Marjorie Lawrence]], operatic soprano, 71<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100013b.htm|chapter=Lawrence, Marjorie Florence (1907–1979)|title=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]|publisher=[[Melbourne University Press]]|last=Griffin|first=Helga M.|pages=14–15|volume=10|location=[[Melbourne, Victoria|Melbourne, Vic]]|year=1986|access-date=30 June 2009}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – [[Sid Vicious]], punk rocker, 21<ref>{{cite web|last1=Medina|first1=David|last2=Lombardi|first2=Frank|title=Punk rocker Sid Vicious dies of an overdose in 1979|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/punk-rocker-sid-vicious-dies-heroin-1979-article-1.2096835|website=New York Daily News|publisher=nydailynews.com|access-date=6 May 2017|date=1 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – [[Mike Patto]], rock singer, 36 (cancer)
* [[March 5]] – [[Alan Crofoot]], operatic tenor and host of ''Mr Piper'', 49 (suicide)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RHJkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2764,3763147&dq=alan+crofoot+death&hl=en|title=Alcohol, medication may have led to tenor's suicide|date=March 7, 1979|work=The Calgary Herald|page=B18|access-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref> 
* [[March 13]] – [[Harrison Keller]], US violinist and music teacher, 90<ref>''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', Seventh Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984, page 1178</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[Walter Legge]], record producer, 72<ref>{{cite book|author1=Walter Legge|author2=Alan Sanders|title=Walter Legge: words and music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FY4IAQAAMAAJ|date=21 May 1998|publisher=Duckworth|isbn=978-0-7156-2774-7|page=255}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Antonio Brosa]], violinist, 84<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Sadie|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l10NAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|isbn=978-0-333-23111-1|page=335}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Ernst Glaser]], Norwegian violinist, conductor and music teacher, 75
* [[April 10]] – [[Nino Rota]], composer, 67 (coronary thrombosis)<ref>{{cite book|author1=F. Maurice Speed|author2=Speed|title=Film Review: 1979–1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jeia-Mi28JwC|date=1 November 1979|publisher=Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8015-2632-9|page=168}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – [[Maria Caniglia]], operatic soprano, 73<ref>{{cite book|author=Lanfranco Rasponi|title=The Last Prima Donnas|publisher=Limelight Editions|year=1985|isbn=9780879100407|page=245}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] – [[Julia Perry]], composer and conductor, 55
* [[May 1]] – [[Bronislav Gimpel]], violinist, 68
* [[May 9]] – [[Zoltán Kelemen (baritone)|Zoltán Kelemen]], operatic bass-baritone, 53
* [[May 11]] – [[Lester Flatt]], bluegrass musician, 64
* [[May 21]] – [[Blue Mitchell]], trumpeter, 49
* [[May 26]] - [[Stefano Ballarini]], baritone, 76<ref>Stephan Ballarini in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014</ref><ref>Stephan Ballarini in the Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998</ref>
* [[June 5]] – [[Jack Haley]], actor, singer (''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|Wizard of Oz]]'') 80
* [[June 21]] – [[Angus MacLise]], American drummer and songwriter ([[Velvet Underground]] and [[Theatre of Eternal Music]]), 41 ([[hypoglycemia]] and pulmonary [[tuberculosis]])<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p42603/biography|pure_url=yes}} allmusic "Angus MacLise"]</ref>
* [[June 29]] – [[Lowell George]], singer, songwriter and guitarist, founder of [[Little Feat]], 34 (heart attack)
* [[July 3]] – [[Louis Durey]], composer, 91
* [[July 6]] – [[Van McCoy]], singer, 39 (heart attack)
* [[July 12]] – [[Minnie Riperton]], singer, 31 (breast cancer)
* [[July 14]] – [[Pedro Flores (composer)|Pedro Flores]], composer, 85
* [[July 16]] – [[Alfred Deller]], countertenor, 67
* [[August 19]] – [[Dorsey Burnette]], Rockabilly singer, 46 (heart attack)
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan Kenton]], bandleader, 67
* [[September 2]] – [[Jacques Février]], pianist, 79
* [[September 6]] – [[Guy Bolton]], English librettist, 94
* [[September 22]] – [[Richard Nibley]], violinist, 66
* [[September 27]]
** [[Gracie Fields]], actress and singer, 81
** [[Jimmy McCulloch]], guitarist ([[Wings (band)|Wings]]), 26
* [[October 1]] – [[Roy Harris]], composer, 81
* [[October 13]] – [[Rebecca Helferich Clarke]], viola player and composer, 93<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Greene|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|location=London|publisher=Collins|year=1986|page=1164|isbn=978-0-00434-363-1}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] – [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer, conductor, and music teacher, 92<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Lavezzoli|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|location=London|publisher=Continuum|year=2007|isbn=978-0-82642-819-6|page=126}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Germaine Lubin]], operatic soprano, 89
* [[November 11]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], film composer and conductor, 85
* [[November 13]] – [[Freda Betti]], French mezzo-soprano opera singer, 55
* [[November 17]] – [[John Glascock]], rock bassist, 28
* [[November 23]] – [[Judee Sill]], singer-songwriter, 35
* [[November 30]] – [[Joyce Grenfell]], actress and singer-songwriter, 69
* [[December 21]] – [[Nansi Richards]], harpist, 91
* [[December 30]] – [[Richard Rodgers]], composer and songwriter, 77