Editing 1918 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918.

==Specific locations==
*[[1918 in British music]]
*[[1918 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1918 in country music]]
*[[1918 in jazz]]

==Events==
* [[January 18]] – The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the [[Konzerthaus, Vienna]].<ref>{{Cite web
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[[File:Aeolian Hall program (13 Feb 1918).jpg|250px|thumb|Programme for Rebecca Clarke's recital at the Aeolian Hall]]
*[[February 13]] – [[May Mukle]] and [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]] give a recital at the [[Aeolian Hall (New York)|Aeolian Hall]] in New York City, accompanied by [[Marjorie Hayward]], performing works by [[Hubert Parry]], [[Frank Bridge]], and Clarke herself. It includes the premiėre of ''[[Morpheus (Rebecca Clarke)|Morpheus]]'', written by Clarke under the pen-name "Anthony Trent".<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/morpheus-for-viola-piano/oclc/44878864?ht=edition&referer=br ''Morpheus'': holograph listing at WorldCat.]</ref>
*[[March 3]] – [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)|String Quartet No. 2]] is premièred in [[Budapest]].
*[[April 30]] – [[May 1]] – Composer [[Toivo Kuula]] is mortally wounded in the [[Finnish Civil War]].
*August – [[King Oliver]] leaves [[New Orleans]] for [[Chicago]].
*[[September 28]] – First performance of [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''[[Histoire du Soldat]]'', conducted by [[Ernest Ansermet]], in Lausanne, Switzerland.
*[[September 29]] – First performance of [[Gustav Holst]]'s orchestral suite ''[[The Planets]]'', before an invited audience at the [[Queen's Hall]] in London, conducted by [[Adrian Boult]].
*[[November 15]] – [[Rosa Ponselle]] makes her [[Metropolitan Opera]] début as Leonora in Verdi's ''[[La forza del destino]]'', opposite [[Enrico Caruso]].
*[[November 30]] – [[Ernest Ansermet]] conducts the first concert by the [[Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]].
*[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] is appointed Director of Music, [[First Army (United Kingdom)]].
*First documented racially integrated [[jazz]] recording session.
*Worldwide sales of [[phonograph|phonograph/gramophone]] records estimated at 100 million records this year.

==Bands formed==
* [[Goldman Band]]  founded by [[Edwin Franko Goldman]]

==Published popular music==
[[Image:Me-Ow1918.jpeg|right]]
* "[[After You've Gone (song)|After You've Gone]]" w. [[Henry Creamer]] m. [[Turner Layton]]
* "[[All Aboard for Home Sweet Home]]" w.m. Addison Burkhardt. Al Piantadosi and Jack Glogau
* "Bagdad"  w. [[Harold Atteridge]] m. [[Al Jolson]]
* "[[Beautiful Ohio]]" w. [[Ballard MacDonald]] m. Mary Earl
* "[[Clarinet Marmalade]]" m. [[Edwin B. Edwards]], [[Nick LaRocca]], [[Tony Spargo]] & [[Larry Shields]]
* "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "[[Dear Little Boy of Mine]]"  w. J. Keirn Brennan m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "[[Dear Old Pal of Mine]]" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. [[Gitz Rice]]
* "Ding Dong" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Don't Let Us Sing Anymore About War, Just Let Us Sing of Love (Peace Song)]]" w.m. [[Harry Lauder]]
* "Every Day" by [[Shelton Brooks]]
* "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by [[Henry Creamer]] and [[Turner Layton]]
* "[[Everybody's Happy Now]]" m. James Kendis & [[James Brockman]] & Nat Vincent
* "Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. [[Grant Clarke]] m. [[Milton Ager]]
* "Fidgety Feet" m. [[Edwin B. Edwards]], [[Nick LaRocca]], [[Tony Spargo]] & [[Larry Shields]]
* "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. [[Eddie Green (actor)|Eddie Green]]
* "[[Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!]]" w.m. Robert Lloyd
* "[[Goodbye, France]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & [[Harold Weeks (musician)|Harold Weeks]]
* "Hike! Hike! Hike! (Along the Old Turn Pike)" w.m. Nat Vincent
* "How Can You Tell" by [[Ned Wayburn]]
* "[[How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Walter Donaldson (songwriter)|Walter Donaldson]]
* "I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]]
* "I Want To Shimmy" by [[Shelton Brooks]]
* "[[If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!]]" w. [[Grant Clarke]] & [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. George W. Meyer
* "I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, [[Gus Kahn]] & [[Al Jolson]]
* "In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. [[Grant Clarke]] m. George W. Meyer
* "[[It Won't Be Long Before We're Home]]" m. [[Joseph E. Howard]] w. [[Paul Cunningham (songwriter)|Paul Cunningham]]
* "[[Ja-Da]]" w.m. [[Bob Carleton]]
* "[[K-K-K-Katy]]" w.m. [[Geoffrey O'Hara]]
* "Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
* "[[Mammy's Chocolate Soldier]]" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
* "My Baby Boy" w. [[William Dillon]] m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "[[Oh How I Wish I could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Back Home|Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Back Home]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Pete Wendling]]
* "[[Oh! Frenchy]]" w. Sam Ehrlich m. [[Con Conrad]]
* "[[Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Oh, Susie, Behave]]" w. [[Ed Rose (lyricist)|Ed Rose]] and m. Abe Olman
* "[[On the Road to Calais]]" w. Alfred Bryan m. [[Al Jolson]]
* "Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. [[Joe Jordan (musician)]], [[Nick LaRocca]] & [[J. Russell Robinson]]
* "[[Oui, Oui, Marie]]" w. Alfred Bryan & [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]] m. Fred Fisher
* "[[Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyriciat)|Joe Young]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "[[The Rose of No Man's Land]]" w. Jack Caddigan m. James A. Brennan
* "Russian Rag" m. [[George L. Cobb]]
* "[[Somebody Stole My Gal]]" w.m. [[Leo Wood]]
* "Sometime" by [[Rida Johnson Young]]
* "[[Tell That to the Marines]]" w. Harold Atteridge & [[Al Jolson]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. [[Con Conrad]]
* "[[They Were All Out of Step But Jim]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "[[Those Draftin' Blues]]" w.m. [[Maceo Pinkard]]
* "[[Till We Meet Again (1918 song)|Till We Meet Again]]" w. [[Raymond B. Egan]] m. [[Richard A. Whiting]]
* "Tishomingo Blues"  [[Spencer Williams]]
* "Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "[[We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There]]" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
* "[[When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France]]" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] & [[Edgar Leslie]] m. Cliff Hess
* "[[When Tony Goes Over The Top]]" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
* "When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
* "Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]] & [[Sam M. Lewis]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Without You" w. [[Nora Bayes]] m. Irving Fisher
* "[[Would You Rather Be a Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder or a Private with a Chicken On Your Knee?]]" w. [[Sidney D. Mitchell]] m. [[Archie Gottler]]
* "[[You Can't Stop the Yanks (Till They Go Right Thru)]]" w.m.  [[Jack Caddigan]] & [[Oliver E. Story|Chick Story]]
* "[[You'll Find Old Dixieland In France]]" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
* "You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, [[Gus Kahn]] & [[Egbert van Alstyne]]

==Top hit recordings==
[[Image:VictorClarinetMarmaladeSmall.jpg|right]]

*"[[Tiger Rag]]/Skeleton Jangle" by the [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]]
*"Over There" by [[Enrico Caruso]]
*"[[After You've Gone (song)|After You've Gone]]" by [[Marion Harris]]
*"[[Smiles (1917 song)|Smiles]]" by [[Joseph C. Smith]]'s Orchestra
*"[[I'm Always Chasing Rainbows]]" by [[Charles W. Harrison]]
*"[[Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody]]" by [[Al Jolson]]
*"[[Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land|Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land]]" by Al Jolson
*"[[I'm Sorry I Made You Cry]]" by [[Henry Burr]]

==Classical music==
* [[Joseph Achron]] – Violin Sonata No.2
* [[Agustín Barrios]] – ''Un sueño en la foresta''
* [[Arnold Bax]]
** String Quartet No. 1 in G major, GP. 199<ref name="parlett18">{{cite web|url=http://www.davpar.eu/bax/bax1519.html|title=Parlett Catalogue of music by Bax 1915–1919|accessdate=2013-02-25|archive-date=2017-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327165435/http://www.davpar.eu/bax/bax1519.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** ''Symphonic Variations'', GP. 210<ref name="parlett18"/>
* [[Émile-Robert Blanchet|Emile-Robert Blanchet]] – 2 Barcarolles for piano, Op.24
* [[Lili Boulanger]]
** ''[[D'un matin de printemps]]''
** ''D'un soir triste''
* [[Carl Busch]] – Indian Tribal Melodies
* [[John Alden Carpenter]] – Little Indian
* [[Frederick Delius]] – ''A Song Before Sunrise''
* [[Edward Elgar]] – [[Violin Sonata (Elgar)|Violin Sonata]]
* [[George Enescu]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Enescu)|Symphony No. 3]] in C major, Op. 21
* [[Gabriel Fauré]] – [[Fantaisie, Op. 111 (Fauré)|''Fantaisie'']], Op. 111
* [[Gustav Holst]] – ''[[The Planets]]''
* [[Alexander Glazunov]] – ''Romance of Nina''
* [[Paul Hindemith]] – [[Violin Sonata No. 2 (Hindemith)|Violin Sonatas, Op. 11]]
* [[Jan Ingenhoven]] – Trio for violin, cello and harp
* [[Leoš Janáček]] – ''[[Taras Bulba (rhapsody)|Taras Bulba]]''
* [[Sigfrid Karg-Elert]] – 30 Caprices for Flute Solo, Op. 107
* [[Charles Koechlin]] –  Sonata (for bassoon and piano) Op. 71
* [[Leevi Madetoja]] – Symphony No. 2, Op. 35
* [[Bohuslav Martinů]] – [[String Quartet No. 1 (Martinů)|String Quartet No. 1]], H. 117
* [[Darius Milhaud]] – Symphonie de chambre No.2, Op. 49
* [[Nikolai Myaskovsky]] – Symphony No.5, Op. 18
* [[Carl Nielsen]] – ''[[Pan and Syrinx]]'' (tone poem)
* [[Preston Ware Orem]] – American Indian Rhapsody
* [[Francis Poulenc]] 
**Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7
**Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8
**Toréador, FP 11
**Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14
* [[Ottorino Respighi]] – La boutique fantasque. Balletto su musiche di G. Rossini
* [[Emil von Reznicek|Emil Reznicek]] – Symphony No.3 in D major (composer on April 5, premiered the following year)
* [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Camille Saint-Saens]] – Vers la victoire, Op.152
* [[Igor Stravinsky]] 
**[[Histoire du Soldat]]
**Ragtime
* [[Karol Szymanowski]]
** ''Songs of an infatuated Muezzin,'' for soprano and orchestra
** ''3 Caprices de Paganini,'' for voice and piano
** ''4 Songs to Lyrics by Rabindranath Tagore,'' for voice and piano
*[[Felix Weingartner]] – Freiheitsgesang, Op.67

==Opera==
* [[Béla Bartók]] – ''[[Duke Bluebeard's Castle]]'' (composed 1911), [[Royal Hungarian Opera House]] in Budapest, 24 May 
* [[Charles Wakefield Cadman]] – ''[[Shanewis]]'', libretto by [[Nelle Richmond Eberhart]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Shanewis: Performance History|url=http://opera.stanford.edu/Cadman/Shanewis/history.html|publisher=OperaGlass|accessdate=2012-08-12}}</ref>
* [[Giacomo Puccini]] – ''[[Il trittico]]'' (consisting of ''[[Il tabarro]]'', ''[[Suor Angelica]]'' and ''[[Gianni Schicchi]]'')
* [[Franz Schreker]] – ''[[Die Gezeichneten]]''
* [[Gabriel von Wayditch]] – ''Jesus Before Herod''
* [[Felix Weingartner]] – ''[[Die Dorfschule]]''

==Jazz==
{{Main|1918 in jazz}}

==Musical theatre==
* ''[[As You Were (musical)|As You Were]]'' London production opened at the [[London Pavilion|Pavilion]] on [[August 3]]
* ''[[The Better 'Ole]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Greenwich Village Theatre]] on [[October 19]], transferred to the [[James Earl Jones Theatre|Cort Theatre]] on [[November 18]] and transferred to the [[Booth Theatre]] on June 16, 1919, for a total run of 353 performances
* ''[[Buzz-Buzz]]'' London [[revue]] opened at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]] on [[December 20]] and ran for 612 performances
* ''[[The Canary (musical)|The Canary]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre (New York)|Globe Theatre]] on [[November 4]] and ran for 152 performances
* ''[[Fiddlers Three (operetta)|Fiddlers Three]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[James Earl Jones Theatre|Cort Theatre]] on [[September 3]] and ran for 87 performances
* ''[[The Girl Behind the Gun]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on [[September 16]] and ran for 160 performances
* ''[[Hullo, America]]'' London production opened at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] on [[September 25]]
* ''[[Ladies First (musical)|Ladies First]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Broadhurst Theatre]] on  [[October 24]]
* ''[[The Lilac Domino]]'' London production opened at the [[Empire, Leicester Square|Empire Theatre]] on [[February 21]] and ran for 747 performances
* ''[[Listen Lester (play)|Listen Lester]]'' (Music: [[Harold Orlob]] Book and Lyrics: [[Harry L. Cort]] & [[George E. Stoddard]].  Broadway production opened at the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on [[December 23]] and ran for 272 performances.  Starring [[Mary Milburn]], Eddie Garvie, [[Johnny Dooley]], [[Clifton Webb]], [[Ada Mae Weeks]], [[Ada Lewis]] and [[Gertrude Vanderbilt (actress)|Gertrude Vanderbilt]].
* ''[[Oh, Lady! Lady!!]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Princess Theatre, New York City|Princess Theatre]] on [[February 1]], transferred to the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on [[June 17]] and ran for a total of 219 performances.
* ''[[The Passing Show|The Passing Show of 1918]]'' Broadway revue opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on [[July 25]] and ran for 142 performances
* ''[[Phi-Phi]]'' Paris [[operetta]] opened at the [[Bouffes-Parisiens]] on [[November 12]]
* ''[[Sinbad (1918 musical)|Sinbad]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] on [[February 14]] and ran for 164 performances
* ''[[Sometime (musical)|Sometime]]'' (Music: [[Rudolf Friml]] Book: [[Rida Johnson Young]] Lyrics: [[Rida Johnson Young]] )  Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on October 4 and transferred to the [[Casino Theatre (Broadway)|Casino Theatre]] on November 11 for a total run of 283 performances.  Featuring [[Mae West]] and [[Ed Wynn]]
* ''[[Toot-Toot!]]'' Broadway production opened at [[George M. Cohan's Theatre]] on [[March 11]] and ran for 40 performances
* ''[[Very Good Eddie]]'' London production opened at the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] on [[May 18]] and ran for 341 performances
* ''[[Where the Lark Sings (operetta)|Where the Lark Sings]]'' by [[Franz Lehár]]

==Births==
*[[January 9]] – [[Ruthilde Boesch]], Austrian soprano (d. 2012)
*[[January 12]] – [[Julio Gutiérrez (musician)|Julio Gutiérrez]], Cuban pianist, conductor and songwriter (d. 1990)
*[[January 20]] – [[Juan García Esquivel]], Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
*[[January 24]] – [[Gottfried von Einem]], composer (d. 1996)
*[[January 27]]
**<!--January 27-->[[Skitch Henderson]], bandleader (d. 2005)
**<!--January 27-->[[Elmore James]], blues musician (d. 1963)
*[[February 3]] – [[Joey Bishop]], all-round entertainer (d. 2007)
*[[February 15]] – [[Hank Locklin]], singer (d. 2009)
*[[February 16]] – Patty Andrews of [[The Andrews Sisters]] singing group (d. 2013)
*[[March 20]] – [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann]], German composer (d. 1970)
*[[March 20]] – [[Marian McPartland]], British jazz pianist (d. 2013)
*[[March 23]] – [[Alberto Caracciolo]], tango musician (d. 1994)
*[[March 29]] – [[Pearl Bailey]], singer (d. 1990)
*[[April 3]] – [[Sixten Ehrling]], conductor (d. 2005)<ref>{{cite news| url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1466025,00.html| first=David| last=Nice| title=Obituary for Sixten Ehrling| newspaper=[[The Guardian]]| location=London| date=22 April 2005}}</ref>
*[[April 25]] – [[Astrid Varnay]], operatic soprano (d. 2006)
*[[May 15]] – [[Eddy Arnold]], country singer (d. 2008)
*[[May 17]] – [[Birgit Nilsson]], operatic soprano (d. 2005)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/arts/music/birgit-nilsson-soprano-legend-who-tamed-wagner-dies-at-87.html |title=Birgit Nilsson, Soprano Legend Who Tamed Wagner, Dies at 87 |last=Holland |first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Holland|date=12 January 2006|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=17 May 2017}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – [[Noel Estrada]], composer (d. 1979)
*[[June 8]] – [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]], star of musicals (d. 1987)
*[[June 10]] – [[Patachou]], French singer (d. 2015)
*[[June 26]] – [[Roger Voisin]], trumpeter (d. 2008)
*[[July 5]] – [[George Rochberg]], composer (d. 2005)
*[[July 6]] – [[Eugene List]], classical pianist (d. 1985)
*[[July 24]] – [[Ruggiero Ricci]], violinist (d. 2012)
*[[July 27]] – [[Leonard Rose]], cellist (d. 1984)
*[[August 18]] – [[Cisco Houston]], folk singer (d. 1961)
*[[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], composer and conductor (d. 1990)
*[[August 29]] – [[Mrs Mills]], born Gladys Jordan, honky-tonk pianist (d. 1978)
*[[August 31]] – [[Alan Jay Lerner]], US lyricist (d. 1986)
*[[September 13]] – [[Dick Haymes]], Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
*[[September 14]] – Israel López "[[Cachao]]", Cuban bassist and composer (d. 2008)
*[[September 22]] – [[Henryk Szeryng]], violinist (d. 1988)
*[[September 23]] – [[Lola Graham]], pianist (d. 1992)
*[[September 26]] – [[John Zacherle]], actor and singer (d. 2016)
*[[October 9]] – [[Bebo Valdés]], Cuban pianist (d. 2013)
*[[October 11]] – [[Jerome Robbins]], choreographer (d. 1998)
*[[October 14]] – [[Ellen Faull]], operatic soprano (d. 2008)
*[[October 16]] – [[Géori Boué]], operatic soprano (d. 2017)
*[[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], actress, dancer and singer (d. 1987)
*[[October 26]] – [[Eric Ericson]], Swedish choral conductor and choral teacher (d. 2013)
*[[November 20]] – [[Tibor Frešo]], composer (d. 1987)
*[[December 12]] – [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]], jazz singer (d. 1999)
*[[December 19]] – [[Professor Longhair]], blues singer and pianist (d. 1980)
*[[December 23]] – [[José Greco]], flamenco dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)
*[[December 24]] – [[Dave Bartholomew]], bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)

==Deaths==
*[[January 10]] – [[Alphonse Maille|Alphonse Mailly]], French composer (born 1833) 
*[[January 19]] – [[Juan José Cañas]], co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
*[[February 7]] – [[Alexander Taneyev]], composer (b. 1850)
*[[February 15]] – [[Miguel Marqués (composer)|Miguel Marqués]] – Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
*[[February 23]] – [[Sophie Menter]] – German composer and pianist (b. 1846)
*[[February 27]] – [[Vasily Safonov]], pianist (born 1852)
*[[March 1]] – [[Emil Sjögren]], lieder composer (b. 1853)
*[[March 2]] – [[Theobald Rehbaum]], violinist (born 1835)
*March (12–15) – [[José White Lafitte]], violinist and composer (b. 1836)
*[[March 13]] – [[César Cui]], music critic and composer (b. 1835)
*[[March 15]] – [[Lili Boulanger]], composer (b. 1893)
*[[March 23]] – [[Théo Ysaÿe]], pianist and composer (b. 1865)
*[[March 25]] – [[Claude Debussy]], composer (b. 1862)
*[[March 26]] –  [[:fr:Charles Clairville|Charles Clairville]], librettist (born 1855)
*[[April 8]] – [[Lucjan Rydel]], Polish lyricist and playwright (b. 1870)
*[[April 13]] – [[David Ffrangcon Davies]], operatic baritone (b. 1855)
*[[April 21]] – [[Antonio Pini-Corsi]], operatic baritone (b. 1859)
*[[May 5]] – [[Bertha Palmer]], writer, musician, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (b. 1849)
*[[May 18]] – [[Toivo Kuula]], conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780674372993|page=474}}</ref>
*[[May 22]] – [[Fritz Seitz]], violinist and composer (b. 1848)
*[[June 9]] – [[Jozsef Angster]], master organ maker (b. 1834)
*[[June 10]] – [[Arrigo Boito]], writer and composer (b. 1842)
*[[July 27]] – [[Gustav Kobbé]], American music critic and author (b. 1857) (killed in sailing accident)
*[[August 12]] – [[Anna Held]], singer (b. 1872)
*[[August 15]] – [[Heinrich Köselitz]], author and composer (b. 1854)
*[[August 26]] – [[Cecil Coles]], composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)<ref>[http://www.bardic-music.com/Coles.htm Brief biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816021557/http://bardic-music.com/Coles.htm|date=2013-08-16}}</ref>
*[[September 7]] – [[Morfydd Llwyn Owen]], singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (complications from surgery for appendicitis)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cleaver |first=Emrys |chapter=Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918) |title=Musicians of Wales |location=Ruthin |publisher=John Jones |year=1968}}</ref>
*[[September 18]] – [[Ernest Farrar]], composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
*[[September 19]] 
**[[Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin|Nikolay Ladukhin]], music theorist and  composer (born 1860)
**[[Liza Lehmann]], operatic soprano and composer (b. 1862)
*[[October 7]] – [[Hubert Parry]], composer (b. 1848)
*[[October 15]] – [[Antonio Cotogni]], operatic baritone (b. 1831)
*[[October 16]] – [[Felix Arndt]], pianist and composer (b. 1889)
*[[October 22]] – [[Charles Peccatte]], archetier (b. 1850)
*[[October 24]]
**[[Charles Lecocq]], composer (b. 1832)
**[[Marianne Scharwenka]], violinist (b. 1856)
*[[October 29]] – [[Rudolf Tobias]], organist and composer (b. 1873)
*[[November 4]] – [[Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán]], ''zarzuela'' composer (b. 1875)
*[[December 13]] – [[Nikolay and Medea Figner|Nikolay Figner]], Russian-Ukrainian lyric tenor (b. 1857)
*''date unknown'' – [[King Watzke]], violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)

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