1937 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

• February 14 – Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (b. 1875)
• March 12
  • Charles-Marie Widor, composer (b. 1844)
  • Jenő Hubay, composer and violinist (b. 1858)
• March 29 – Karol Szymanowski, composer (b. 1882)
• April 8 – Arthur Foote, composer (b. 1853)
• April 11 – Minnie Bell Sharp, pianist and singer (b. 1865)
• April 20 – Virgilio Ranzato, composer (b. 1883)
• May 2 – Arthur Somervell, composer (b. 1863)
• May 4 – Noel Rosa, singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
• May 7 – W. O. Forsyth, pianist (b. 1859)
• May 11 – Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, composer (b. 1875)
• June 2 – Louis Vierne, organist and composer (b. 1870)
• July 11 – George Gershwin, composer (b. 1898)
• July 17 – Gabriel Pierné, organist and composer (b. 1863)
• July 23 – Charles Henry Mills, composer and music teacher (b. 1873)
• August 23 – Albert Roussel, composer (b. 1869)
• September 6 – Henry Kimball Hadley, composer and conductor (b. 1871)
• September 26 – Bessie Smith, blues singer (b. 1895)
• October 17 – Paul Lhérie, operatic tenor/baritone (b. 1844)
• October 22 – Frank Damrosch, organist, conductor and music teacher (b. 1859)
• November 3 – Winthrop Ames, theatrical director (b. 1870)
• November 24 – Tell Taylor, songwriter (b. 1876)
• November 25 – Lilian Baylis, founder of Sadler's Wells ballet company (b. 1874) (b. 1861)
• November 29 – Ferdinand Buescher, instrument manufacturer
• December 10 – Rosa Valetti, cabaret singer (b. 1878)
• December 26
  • Dan Beddoe, tenor (b. 1863)
  • Ivor Gurney, composer-poet (b. 1890)
• December 28 – Maurice Ravel, composer (b. 1875)
• date unknown
  • Blind Uncle Gaspard, Cajun musician (b. 1880 )
  • Maude Valerie White, composer and songwriter (b. 1855)
  • Loraine Wyman, folk singer and dulcimer player (b. 1885)