1957 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• January – Gertie Gitana, music hall entertainer, 69
• January 16 – Arturo Toscanini, conductor, 89
• January 18 – George Girard, jazz trumpeter, 26 (cancer)
• February 7 – Rudolph Réti, pianist, composer and musicologist, 71
• February 16 – Josef Hofmann, pianist and composer, 81
• February 21 - Marguerite Sylva, operatic mezzo-soprano, 81
• March 8 – Othmar Schoeck, composer, 70
• March 13 – Lena Ashwell, Forces entertainer, 84
• March 24 – Carson Robison, country music singer and songwriter, 66
• April 15 – Pedro Infante, actor and singer, 39 (air crash)
• May 2 – Tadeusz Kassern, composer, 53 (suicide)
• May 9 – Ezio Pinza, Italian singer and actor, 64
• May 12 – Marie Rappold, operatic soprano, 83
• June 5 – Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist, 90
• June 6 – Kulyash Baiseitova, opera singer, 52
• June 12 – Jimmy Dorsey, jazz musician and big band leader, 53 (cancer)
• July 7 – Hiski Salomaa, folk singer and songwriter, 66
• July 9 – Alexander Goedicke, pianist and composer, 80
• July 16 – Serge Chaloff, saxophonist. 33 (cancer)
• August 28 – Erik Tuxen, conductor, composer and arranger, 55
• September 1 – Dennis Brain, horn virtuoso, 36 (in unexplained car accident)
• September 11 – Petar Stojanović, violinist and composer, 80
• September 20 – Jean Sibelius, composer, 91
• October 14 – Natanael Berg, composer, 78
• October 20 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, dancer, actor and director, 66
• October 23 – Abe Lyman, US bandleader, composer and drummer, 60
• November 4 – Joseph Canteloube, composer, 78
• November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer, 60
• November 30 – Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor, 67
• December 19 – Abolhasan Saba, instrumentalist, 55
• December 20 – Walter Page, jazz musician, 57
• December 21 – Eric Coates, composer, 71
• date unknown
  • "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, vaudeville performer
  • Ivan Zorman, poet and composer