1988 in British Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • 2 February - Solomon, pianist, 85
  • 10 March – Andy Gibb, singer, 30 (myocarditis)
  • 10 March – William Wordsworth, composer, 79
  • 24 August - Kenneth Leighton, composer, 57 (cancer)
  • 11 September - H. Hugh Bancroft, organist and composer, 84
  • 23 September – Arwel Hughes, composer and conductor, 79
  • 15 October – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music journalist and pianist
  • 25 December - Denis Matthews, pianist and musicologist, 69

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