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)