1956 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 3 – Alexander Gretchaninov, composer, 91
  • January 5 – Mistinguett, entertainer, 80
  • January 9 – Paul de Maleingreau, organist and composer, 68
  • January 20 – Lucy Isabelle Marsh, soprano and early recording artist, 77
  • January 27 – Erich Kleiber, conductor, 65
  • February 2 – Charles Grapewin, vaudeville performer, 86
  • February 4 – Peder Gram, organist and composer, 74
  • February 17 – John N. Klohr, composer of band music, 86
  • February 18 – Gustave Charpentier, composer, 95
  • February 21 – Edwin Franko Goldman, band composer, 78
  • February 26 – Elsie Janis, singer, songwriter and actress, 66
  • March 5 – Erich Itor Kahn, composer, 50 (brain haemorrhage)
  • March 11 – Sergei Vasilenko, Russian composer, 83
  • March 16 – Joseph John Richards, conductor, composer and music teacher, 77
  • March 28 – Thomas de Hartmann, composer, 70
  • April 9 - Little Jack Little, composer, actor, singer and songwriter
  • April 15 – Kathleen Howard, opera singer, character actress, 71
  • May 20 – Harry Stewart, comedian, singer, and songwriter, 47 (car accident)
  • June 11 – Frankie Trumbauer, US saxophonist, bandleader and sometime singer, 55 (heart attack)
  • June 23 – Reinhold Glière, composer, 81
  • June 25 - Michio Miyagi, blind Japanese composer and inventor of musical instruments, 62 (fall from train)
  • June 26 (in a car accident):
    • Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter, 25
    • Richie Powell, jazz pianist, 24
  • July 18 – Violet Loraine, musical theatre star, 69
  • August 14
    • May Brahe, songwriter, 71
    • Jaroslav Řídký, composer, 58
  • August 31 – Yves Nat, pianist and composer, 65
  • September 6 – Felix Borowski, composer and music teacher, 84
  • September 21 – Rigoberto López Pérez, composer and poet, 35 (shot)
  • September 27 – Gerald Finzi, composer, 55 ("severe brain inflammation")
  • October 1 – Albert Von Tilzer, songwriter, 78
  • October 12 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, composer, 83
  • October 18 – Harry Parry, jazz musician, 44
  • October 19 – Isham Jones, US bandleader and composer, 62
  • October 22 – Valda Valkyrien, ballerina, 61
  • October 26 – Walter Gieseking, pianist, 60
  • November 1 – Tommy Johnson, blues musician, 60
  • November 5 – Art Tatum, jazz pianist, 47 (kidney failure)
  • November 10 – Victor Young, violinist, conductor and composer, 56 (brain haemorrhage)
  • November 24 – Guido Cantelli, conductor, 36 (plane crash)
  • November 26 – Tommy Dorsey, bandleader, 51 (choking)
  • November 30
    • Ludvík Kuba, artist and musician, 93
    • Jean Schwartz, songwriter, 78
  • December 7 – Henry Fillmore, composer and publisher, 75
  • date unknown - Rupert Hughes, composer

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