Deaths
- January 8 - Maud Powell, violinist (b. 1867)
- January 16 - Reginald De Koven, US music critic and composer (b. 1859)
- January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, poet, co-writer of "O Sole Mio" (b. 1859)
- January 21 - John Henry Maunder, composer (b. 1858)
- January 24 - William Percy French, songwriter (b. 1854)
- February 2 - Theo Marzials, singer and composer (b. 1850)
- February 11 - Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (b. 1881)
- February 12 - Émile Sauret, violinist and composer (b. 1852)
- February 23 - Alexander Ilyinsky, music teacher and composer (b. 1859)
- April 4 - Carl Bohm, songwriter (b. 1844)
- April 8 - Charles Griffes, composer (b. 1884)
- April 19 - Mathilde Mallinger, lyric soprano (b. 1847)
- May - Hardwicke Rawnsley, hymn-writer (b. 1851)
- May 6 - Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (b. 1833)
- May 25 - Georg Jarno, composer of operettas (b. 1868)
- June 27 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, lyricist (b. 1839)
- June 28 - Pauline Rita, singer and actress (b. c.1842)
- July 17 - Dorothy Goetz, first wife of Irving Berlin (b. 1892) (typhoid)
- July 26 - Carlos Troyer, composer (b. 1837)
- August 29 - Gustav Jenner, composer and conductor (b. 1865)
- October 2 - Max Bruch, composer (b. 1838)
- October 16 - Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (b. 1864)
- November 6 - Maria Waldmann, operatic mezzo-soprano associated with Verdi (b. 1844)
- date unknown
- George J. Gaskin, singer (b. c. 1850)
- Carlos Hartling, German-born composer of the Honduras national anthem (b. 1869)
- Paloke Kurti, Albanian composer (b. 1860)
- probable - Eva Mylott, operatic contralto (b. 1875) (domestic accident)
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