1943 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • February 7
    • Clara Novello Davies, singer, mother of Ivor Novello, 81
    • Sigrid Arnoldson, operatic soprano, 82
  • February 17 - Armand J. Piron, jazz violinist, bandleader and composer, 54
  • March 7 - Alma Moodie, violinist, 44 (drug overdose)
  • March 8 - Alice Nielsen, Broadway performer and opera tic soprano, 70
  • March 19 - Abel Decaux, composer, 74
  • March 28
    • Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
    • Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, 69
  • April 29 - Joseph Achron, violinist and composer, 56
  • April 30 - René Blum, founder of the Ballet de l'Opera at Monte Carlo, 65 (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
  • May 28 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer, 48 (alcohol-related)
  • June 16 - Sigrid Onégin, opera singer, 54
  • June 26 - Ruby Elzy, African American soprano Porgy and Bess, 35 (post-operative complications)
  • July 13 - Lorenzo Barcelata, songwriter, 44
  • July 20 - Maria Gay, opera singer, 64
  • September 1 - August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer, 72
  • September 7
    • Frank Crumit, US singer, 53
    • Karlrobert Kreiten, pianist
  • September 21 - Trixie Smith, blues singer, 48
  • October 5 - Leon Roppolo, jazz musician, 41
  • October 23 - Ben Bernie, US jazz violinist and bandleader, 52
  • October 31 - Max Reinhardt, theatre director, 70
  • November 22 - Lorenz Hart, lyricist, 48 (pneumonia)
  • November 26 - Winnaretta Singer, musical patron, 78
  • November 28 - Arthur Catterall, violinist, orchestra leader and conductor, 60
  • December 15 - Fats Waller, jazz pianist and singer, 39 (pneumonia)
  • December 18 - Joseph McCarthy, composer, 58
  • date unknown
    • Jane Avril, can-can dancer
    • Max Bouvet, operatic baritone
    • Edoardo Garbin, operatic tenor
    • Harry Kandel, bandleader
    • Erhard Wechselmann, operatic baritone, 48 (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp)

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