1920 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 8 - Maud Powell, violinist (b. 1867)
  • January 16 - Reginald De Koven, US music critic and composer (b. 1859)
  • January 18 - Giovanni Capurro, poet, co-writer of "O Sole Mio" (b. 1859)
  • January 21 - John Henry Maunder, composer (b. 1858)
  • January 24 - William Percy French, songwriter (b. 1854)
  • February 2 - Theo Marzials, singer and composer (b. 1850)
  • February 11 - Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (b. 1881)
  • February 12 - Émile Sauret, violinist and composer (b. 1852)
  • February 23 - Alexander Ilyinsky, music teacher and composer (b. 1859)
  • April 4 - Carl Bohm, songwriter (b. 1844)
  • April 8 - Charles Griffes, composer (b. 1884)
  • April 19 - Mathilde Mallinger, lyric soprano (b. 1847)
  • May - Hardwicke Rawnsley, hymn-writer (b. 1851)
  • May 6 - Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (b. 1833)
  • May 25 - Georg Jarno, composer of operettas (b. 1868)
  • June 27 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, lyricist (b. 1839)
  • June 28 - Pauline Rita, singer and actress (b. c.1842)
  • July 17 - Dorothy Goetz, first wife of Irving Berlin (b. 1892) (typhoid)
  • July 26 - Carlos Troyer, composer (b. 1837)
  • August 29 - Gustav Jenner, composer and conductor (b. 1865)
  • October 2 - Max Bruch, composer (b. 1838)
  • October 16 - Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (b. 1864)
  • November 6 - Maria Waldmann, operatic mezzo-soprano associated with Verdi (b. 1844)
  • date unknown
    • George J. Gaskin, singer (b. c. 1850)
    • Carlos Hartling, German-born composer of the Honduras national anthem (b. 1869)
    • Paloke Kurti, Albanian composer (b. 1860)
  • probable - Eva Mylott, operatic contralto (b. 1875) (domestic accident)

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