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1943 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1943.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

  • January 1 – Frank Sinatra appears at the Paramount Theatre causing a mob of hysterical bobby soxers to flood Times Square and block midtown New York City traffic for hours. Sinatra becomes a featured singer on the popular Your Hit Parade radio program, and co-star of the series Broadway Bandbox. By fall, he will have left Bandbox to star in his own series Songs By Sinatra.
  • January 23 – Duke Ellington's orchestra performs for the first time at New York City's Carnegie Hall. During the concert, which raises money for war relief, Ellington premieres his most famous and revered extended composition, Black, Brown and Beige.
  • June 1 – A performance of Darius Milhaud's suite for two pianos Scaramouche at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Nazi occupied France is billed anagrammatically as Mous Are-chac by 'Hamid-al-Usurid' to evade the ban on works by Jewish composers.
  • June 17 – Perry Como signs with RCA in the United States.
  • September 27 – Decca Records is the first label to come to terms with the American Federation of Musicians, which has been on strike since August 1942 over music royalties. The first song to be recorded is "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.
  • October 30 – "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Al Dexter goes where no "Hillbilly" record has ever gone, to the top of the National Best Selling Retail Records chart in the United States. Despite fighting a World War in Europe and the Pacific, civilian and armed forces alike are caught up in a national craze not seen again until Elvis and the Beatles. But not everyone is excited about Country music: Dexter's publishing company sues The Hit Parade radio show for ignoring their record.
  • November 14 – Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert on CBS. The event receives front-page coverage in The New York Times the following day.
  • Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers sign with the newly formed Capitol Records (having broken from the Tommy Dorsey band in 1942).
  • Fredda Gibson takes her professional name, "Georgia Gibbs", and begins appearing on the popular Camel Caravan radio program in the United States, hosted by Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore (It is Moore who bestows the famous nickname "Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs" upon her, a playful reference to her diminutive stature).
  • The Ward Singers first tour nationally in the United States.
  • Carter Family disbands.
  • William Schuman's cantata A Free Song wins the first Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Albums released

  • Oklahoma – Original Broadway Cast, 1,000,000 sales
  • Reveille with Beverly – Original soundtrack

Classical music

Premieres

ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Berkeley, LennoxSymphony No. 11943-07-08London (Proms)London Philharmonic – Cameron
Britten, BenjaminPrelude and Fugue for Strings1943-06-23LondonNeel String Orchestra – Neel
Britten, BenjaminSerenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings1943-10-15LondonPears, Brain / Neel String Orchestra – Britten
Copland, Aaron*Music for the Movies*1943-02-17New York CitySaidenberg Little Symphony – Saidenberg
Copland, Aaron*Fanfare for the Common Man*1943-03-12CincinnatiCincinnati Symphony Orchestra – Goossens
Dale, Benjamin*The Flowing Tide*1943-08-06London (Proms)BBC Symphony – Boult
Dunhill, ThomasWaltz Suite1943-08-05London (Proms)BBC Symphony – Dunhill
Dutilleux, HenriMelodies for Voice and Orchestra1943-12-14ParisPanzera / Paris Conservatory Concert Orchestra – Tomasi
Feldman, Morton*Dirge in Memory of Thomas Wolfe*1943-04-15New York CityHSMA Senior Symphony – Feldman
Foss, Lukas*The Prairie*1946-10-15BostonBoston Symphony – Koussevitzky
Ginastera, AlbertoDances from *Estancia*1943-05-12Buenos AiresTeatro Colón Regular Orchestra – Calusio
Gundry, Inglis*Heyday Freedom*, orchestral suite1943-06-26London (Proms)London Philharmonic – Cameron
Hanson, Howard*Requiem* (Symphony No. 4)1943-12-03BostonBoston Symphony – Hanson
Harris, RoySymphony No. 51943-02-26BostonBoston Symphony – Koussevitzky
Jolivet, André*Les trois complaintes du soldat*1943-02-28ParisBernac / Paris Conservatory Concert Orchestra – Munch
Martinů, BohuslavConcerto for Two Pianos1943-11-05PhiladelphiaLuboshutz, Nemenoff / Philadelphia Orchestra – Ormandy
Martinů, Bohuslav*Memorial to Lidice*1943-10-28New York CityNew York Philharmonic – Rodzinski
Martinů, BohuslavSymphony No. 21943-10-28Cleveland, OhioCleveland Orchestra – Leinsdorf
Martinů, BohuslavViolin Concerto No. 21943-12-31BostonElman / Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky
Messiaen, Olivier*Visions de l'Amen*1943-05-10ParisLoriod, Messiaen
Moeran, Ernest JohnRhapsody No. 3, for piano and orchestra1943-08-19London (Proms)Cohen / BBC Symphony – Boult
Moroi, Saburō*Sinfonietta for Children*1943-11-05TokyoTokyo Broadcast Orchestra – Moroi
Ponce, ManuelViolin Concerto1943-08-20México DFSzeryng / Mexico Symphony – Chávez
Prokofiev, SergeiFlute Sonata1943-12-07MoscowKharkovsky, Richter
Prokofiev, SergeiPiano Sonata No. 71943-01-18MoscowRichter
Prokofiev, Sergei*The Year 1941*1943-01-21Sverdlovsk, RussiaUSSR Radio Symphony – Rabinovich
Rodrigo, Joaquín*Concierto heroico*1943-04-03LisbonQuerol / Spanish National Orchestra – E. Halffter
Rowley, Alec*Burlesque Quadrilles*1943-07-13London (Proms)London Philharmonic – Cameron
Rubbra, EdmundSinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra1943-08-10London (Proms)Rubbra / BBC Symphony – Boult
Schuman, William*Symphony for Strings* (Symphony No. 5)1943-11-12BostonBoston Symphony – Koussevitzky
Shostakovich, DmitriPiano Sonata No. 21943-06-06MoscowShostakovich
Shostakovich, Dmitri*Six Romances on Verses by English Poets*1943-06-06MoscowFlachs, Shostakovich
Shostakovich, DmitriSymphony No. 81943-11-04MoscowUSSR State Symphony – Mravinsky
Strauss, Richard*Divertimento after pieces by Couperin*1943-01-31ViennaVienna Philharmonic – Krauss
Stravinsky, Igor*Ode*1943-10-08BostonBoston Symphony – Koussevitzky
Tippett, MichaelBoyhood's End1943-05-24Morley College, LondonUnspecified performers
Tippett, MichaelString Quartet No. 21943-03-27LondonZorian Quartet
Tubin, Eduard*Suite on Estonian Dance Tunes*1943-10-02Tartu, EstoniaTurgan, Mangre
Vaughan Williams, RalphSymphony No. 51943-06-24London (Proms)London Philharmonic – Vaughan Williams
Villa Lobos, HeitorString Quartet No. 61943-11-30Rio de JaneiroQuarteto Haydn
Walton, WilliamViolin Concerto (2nd version)1943-11-30Wolverhampton, UKRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic – Sargent
Webern, Anton*Three Lieder*, Op. 231943-12-05Basel, SwitzerlandGradmann-Lüscher, Baumgartner
Webern, AntonVariations for Orchestra (1940)1943-03-03Winterthur, SwitzerlandStadtorchester Winterthur – Scherchen
Weisgall, Hugo*American Comedy 1943*1943-07-29London (Proms)BBC Symphony – Weisgall

Compositions

  • Henk Badings – Symphony No. 4
  • Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra
  • Leonard Bernstein – I Hate Music
  • Benjamin Britten
    • Rejoice in the Lamb, festival cantata
    • Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
  • Alberto Ginastera – Five Argentinian Folk Songs
  • Reinhold Glière – 25 let Krasnoj Armii (25 Years of the Red Army), Ouverture for wind-orchestra op. 84
  • Morton Gould – Viola Concerto
  • Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 4
  • Paul Hindemith
    • Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber for orchestra
    • Ludus Tonalis, for piano
  • Joaquim Homs – Choral Mass
  • Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 3
  • Rued Langgaard – Concerto in one movement for violin and orchestra
  • Bohuslav Martinů
    • Symphony No. 2
    • In Memory of Lidice
    • Concerto for Two Pianos
    • Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Nikolai Medtner – Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Douglas Moore – In memoriam
  • Saburō Moroi – Sinfonietta for Children
  • Vítězslav Novák – May Symphony, for soli, chorus and orchestra
  • Carl Orff – Catulli Carmina (revised version)
  • Walter Piston – Symphony No. 2
  • Manuel Ponce – Violin Concerto
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Flute Sonata in D Major
  • Joaquín Rodrigo – Heroic Concerto
  • William Schuman – Symphony No. 5, for strings
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Piano Sonata No. 2
    • Symphony No. 8
  • Randall Thompson – The Testament of Freedom
  • Eduard Tubin – Suite on Estonian Dances for Violin and Piano
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • The Story of a Flemish Farm
    • Symphony No. 5 in D Major
  • William Walton
    • The Quest (ballet)
    • Violin Concerto
  • Alberto Williams – Poema del Iguazú

[[Opera]]

  • Hans Krása – Brundibár, children's opera, first performed by inmates of Terezin transit camp

Film

  • Bernard Herrmann – Jane Eyre (1943 film)
  • Alfred Newman – The Song of Bernadette
  • Miklós Rózsa – Sahara
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Coastal Command

[[Jazz]]

Main article: 1943 in jazz

[[Musical theatre]]

  • Bright Lights of 1944 Broadway production opened at the Forrest Theatre on September 16 and ran for 4 performances
  • Carmen Jones Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on December 2 and ran for 502 performances
  • Early to Bed Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June 17 and ran for 380 performances
  • The Lisbon Story London production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on June 17 and ran for 492 performances
  • Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on March 31 and ran for 2411 performances
  • One Touch Of Venus Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on October 7 and ran for 567 performances
  • Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – London revival opened at the Stoll Theatre on April 17 and ran for 264 performances
  • Sweet And Low London revue opened at the Ambassadors Theatre on June 10 and ran for 264 performances

[[Musical film]]s

  • Beautiful Michoacán (Spanish:¡Qué lindo es Michoacán!), starring Tito Guízar, Gloria Marín and Víctor Manuel Mendoza.
  • Best Foot Forward, starring Lucille Ball and Nancy Walker and featuring Harry James & his Music Makers
  • Cabin In The Sky, starring Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong
  • Coney Island, starring Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero and Phil Silvers
  • Crazy House, starring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson and Cass Daley
  • DuBarry Was a Lady, released August 13 starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra and the Pied Pipers.
  • The Gang's All Here, starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Edward Everett Horton and featuring Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
  • Girl Crazy, starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and June Allyson
  • Happy Go Lucky, starring Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton and Rudy Vallee
  • Hers to Hold, released July 16, starring Deanna Durbin and Joseph Cotten.
  • Higher and Higher, featuring Frank Sinatra and Victor Borge
  • Hit Parade of 1943, starring John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Gail Patrick and Eve Arden and featuring Dorothy Dandridge, Count Basie & his Orchestra, Freddy Martin & his Orchestra and Ray McKinley & his Orchestra
  • I Dood It, starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton and featuring Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, and Hazel Scott.
  • Let's Face It, starring Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts and Eve Arden
  • Mister Big, starring Donald O'Connor, Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan and Robert Paige and featuring Ray Eberle
  • Reveille with Beverly, starring Ann Miller and featuring Frank Sinatra, Ella Mae Morse, The Mills Brothers, Freddie Slack & his Orchestra, Bob Crosby & his Orchestra and Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
  • Riding High, starring Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell
  • Something to Shout About, released February 25, starring Don Ameche, Janet Blair, Jack Oakie and Cyd Charisse, and featuring Hazel Scott.
  • Stormy Weather, released July 21, starring Lena Horne, Cab Calloway and "Bojangles" Bill Robinson.
  • Swing Fever, starring Kay Kyser & his Orchestra, Marilyn Maxwell and Lena Horne; directed by Tim Whelan.
  • Thousands Cheer, starring Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor and John Boles and featuring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Eleanor Powell.
  • We'll Meet Again, released January 18, starring Vera Lynn, Geraldo and Patricia Roc.

Births

January–March

  • January 2 – Barış Manço, singer-songwriter (died 1999)
  • January 7 – Richard Armstrong, orchestral conductor
  • January 9 – Scott Walker, singer and composer (died 2019)
  • January 10
    • Jim Croce, singer-songwriter (died 1973)
    • Alan Lloyd, composer (died 1986)
  • January 14
    • Mariss Jansons, conductor (died 2019)
    • José Luis Rodríguez, singer
  • January 16
    • Gavin Bryars, composer and double bassist
    • Brian Ferneyhough, English composer
    • Ronnie Milsap, country musician
  • January 17 – Chris Montez, singer
  • January 18 – Dave Greenslade, composer and rock keyboard player (Colosseum, Greenslade, If)
  • January 19 – Janis Joplin, blues singer (died 1970)
  • January 26
    • Thom Bell, Philadelphia soul songwriter and producer (died 2022)
    • Jean Knight, New Orleans R&B and soul singer (died 2023)
  • January 29 – Tony Blackburn, British radio DJ and singer
  • January 30 – Marty Balin, American rock musician (Jefferson Airplane) (died 2018)
  • February 3
    • Neil Bogart, American record producer, founder of Casablanca Records (died 1982)
    • Dennis Edwards, American soul and R&B singer (The Temptations) (died 2018)
    • Eric Haydock, English pop/rock guitarist (The Hollies) (died 2019)
    • Shawn Phillips, American folk-rock musician
  • February 5 – Chuck Winfield (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
  • February 6 – Fabian Forte, teen idol singer
  • February 8 – Creed Bratton (The Grass Roots)
  • February 9 – Barbara Lewis, singer and songwriter
  • February 14
    • Eric Andersen, singer-songwriter
    • Maceo Parker, saxophonist
  • February 15 – Lal Waterson, folk singer-songwriter (died 1998)
  • February 19 – Lou Christie, singer
  • February 21 – David Geffen, record executive
  • February 23 – Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist (died 2008)
  • February 25 – George Harrison, guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Beatles) (died 2001)
  • February 26 – Paul Cotton, rock guitarist and singer-songwriter (Poco)
  • February 27 – Morten Lauridsen, composer
  • February 28 – Donnie Iris, American musician (The Jaggerz, Wild Cherry, Donnie Iris and the Cruisers)
  • March 2 – George Benson, jazz guitarist
  • March 7 – Chris White, rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer (The Zombies)
  • March 9 – David Matthews, composer
  • March 14
    • Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, American funk singer, guitarist and producer (Ohio Players) (died 2013)
    • Jim Pons, American rock guitarist and singer (The Turtles, The Mothers of Invention)
  • March 15 – Sly Stone, musician, singer-songwriter and record producer (died 2025)
  • March 18 – Dennis Linde, songwriter (died 2006)
  • March 21 – Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) (died 1995)
  • March 22 – Keith Relf, British rock musician (The Yardbirds) (died 1976)
  • March 25 – Royston Maldoom OBE, British choreographer
  • March 29
    • Eric Idle, English actor, writer and songwriter
    • Vangelis, Greek-born musician and composer (died 2022)

April–June

  • April 2 – Larry Coryell, jazz fusion guitarist (died 2017)
  • April 3 – Richard Manuel, Canadian pianist and singer (The Band) (died 1986)
  • April 7 – Mick Abrahams, guitarist (Jethro Tull)
  • April 8 – Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, percussionist (died 2020)
  • April 9 – Terry Knight, music producer, singer and songwriter (died 2004)
  • April 11 – Tony Victor, vocalist (The Classics)
  • April 20 – Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
  • April 26 – Gary Wright, singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Spooky Tooth) (died 2023)
  • April 28
    • Jacques Dutronc, singer and composer
    • Sir Jeffrey Tate, conductor (died 2017)
  • April 30 – Bobby Vee, singer (died 2016)
  • May 4 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (died 2000)
  • May 7 – Terry Allen, American country music singer
  • May 8 – Paul Samwell-Smith, blues rock bass guitarist and producer (The Yardbirds, Renaissance)
  • May 9 – Bruce Milner, sunshine pop keyboardist (Every Mother's Son)
  • May 11 – Les Chadwick, beat bass guitarist (Gerry and the Pacemakers) (died 2019)
  • May 13 – Mary Wells, singer (died 1992)
  • May 14
    • Jack Bruce, Scottish bass guitarist (Cream) (died 2014)
    • Derek Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (died 1994)
  • May 21
    • Vincent Crane, English keyboardist (Atomic Rooster, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
    • Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (The Animals) (died 2021)
  • May 23 – Alan Walden, American businessman and manager, co-founder of Capricorn Records
  • May 25 – Leslie Uggams, American singer
  • May 26 – Levon Helm, American drummer and singer (The Band) (died 2012)
  • May 27 – Cilla Black, singer and entertainer (died 2015)
  • June 2 – Jimmy Castor, disco/funk saxophonist (died 2012)
  • June 14 – Muff Winwood (Spencer Davis Group)
  • June 15 – Johnny Hallyday, pop singer and actor (died 2017)
  • June 17 – Barry Manilow, American singer, pianist, arranger and songwriter
  • June 23 – James Levine, conductor and pianist (died 2021)
  • June 25 – Carly Simon, singer-songwriter
  • June 26 – Georgie Fame, R & B musician
  • June 27 – Tony Calder, English record promoter (died 2018)
  • June 28 – Bobby Harrison, English drummer (Procol Harum) (died 2022)
  • June 29 – Little Eva, pop singer (died 2003)
  • June 30 – Florence Ballard, Motown R&B vocalist (The Supremes) (died 1976)

July–September

  • July 1 – Jeff Wayne, American musician
  • July 2 – Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (died 2013)
  • July 3 – Judith Durham, Australian folk pop singer (The Seekers) (died 2022)
  • July 4
    • Conny Bauer, German jazz trombonist
    • Alan Wilson, American blues singer-songwriter (Canned Heat) (died 1970)
  • July 5 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian folk rock songwriter and guitarist (The Band) (died 2023)
  • July 7 – Toto Cutugno, Italian singer/songwriter (died 2023)
  • July 12 – Christine McVie, English pop rock singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Fleetwood Mac) (died 2022)
  • July 18
    • Robin MacDonald, pop guitarist (The Dakotas) (died 2015)
    • Bobby Sherman, American singer, actor and songwriter
  • July 25 – Jim McCarty, English drummer and vocalist (The Yardbirds, Renaissance)
  • July 26 – Mick Jagger, English rock singer and actor (The Rolling Stones)
  • July 27 – Allan Ramsey, American rock bass guitarist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys) (died 1985)
  • July 28
    • Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist/singer-songwriter and composer (The Electric Flag) (died 1981)
    • Richard Wright, English keyboardist and singer (Pink Floyd) (died 2008)
  • August 2
    • Patrick Adiarte, American actor and dancer
    • Kathy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
  • August 4 – David Carr, keyboardist (The Fortunes)
  • August 10 – Ronnie Spector, singer (died 2022)
  • August 11 – Denis Payton, saxophonist (The Dave Clark Five) (died 2006)
  • August 19
    • Edwin Hawkins, American urban contemporary gospel musician (died 2018)
    • Billy J. Kramer, born William H. Ashton, English pop singer
  • August 23 – Pino Presti, Italian musician and record producer
  • August 24 – John Cipollina, American rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (died 1989)
  • August 25 – Peter Bastian, Danish bassoonist (died 2017)
  • August 26 – Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer/songwriter
  • August 28
    • Honey Lantree, drummer (The Honeycombs) (died 2018)
    • David Soul, singer and actor (died 2024)
  • August 29 – Dick Halligan, rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
  • September 2
    • Rosalind Ashford, R&B singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
    • Joe Simon, soul singer (died 2021)
  • September 5 – Joe "Speedo" Frazier, doo-wop singer (The Impalas) (died 2014)
  • September 6 – Roger Waters, English bass guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd)
  • September 11- Mickey Hart, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead)
  • September 12 – Maria Muldaur, singer
  • September 16 – Joe Butler, rock singer (The Lovin' Spoonful)
  • September 20 – Ted Neeley, actor and singer (Jesus Christ Superstar (film))
  • September 23
    • Steve Boone, rock singer (The Lovin' Spoonful)
    • Julio Iglesias, singer
  • September 25
    • Gary Alexander, pop musician (The Association)
    • John Locke, rock musician (Spirit)
  • September 26 – Georgie Fame, R&B singer
  • September 27 – Randy Bachman Canadian guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Guess Who, Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
  • September 28 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-born rock musician (Steppenwolf)
  • September 30 – Marilyn McCoo, singer (The 5th Dimension)

October–December

  • October 1 – Jerry Martini (Sly & The Family Stone)
  • October 5 – Steve Miller (Steve Miller Band)
  • October 7 – Dino Valenti (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
  • October 10 – Denis D'Ell (The Honeycombs)
  • October 16 – Fred Turner, bassist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
  • October 21 – Ron Elliott (The Beau Brummels)
  • October 23 – Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups)
  • October 24 – Dafydd Iwan, folk singer-songwriter and politician
  • November 3 – Bert Jansch, folk musician (Pentangle) (died 2011)
  • November 4 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (died 2000)
  • November 7 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • November 12 – Brian Hyland, singer
  • November 12 – John Maus, vocalist (The Walker Brothers)
  • November 16 – Winifred Lovett (The Manhattans)
  • November 28 – Randy Newman, singer-songwriter
  • November 30
    • Leo Lyons (Ten Years After)
    • Rob Grill (The Grass Roots) (died 2011)
  • December 6 – Mike Smith, singer-songwriter (The Dave Clark Five) (died 2008)
  • December 8 – Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors) (died 1971)
  • December 9 – Rick Danko (The Band) (died 1999)
  • December 12
    • Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers Band)
    • Dave Munden (The Tremeloes)
    • Grover Washington Jr., jazz-funk saxophonist (died 1999)
  • December 16 – Tony Hicks, guitarist (The Hollies)
  • December 18
    • Bobby Keys, saxophonist (died 2014)
    • Keith Richards, guitarist and songwriter (The Rolling Stones)
  • December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor, musician (This Is Spinal Tap)
  • December 27 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer (died 2024)
  • December 28 – Chas Hodges, British rockney singer (Chas & Dave) (died 2018)
  • December 30 – Rolf Gehlhaar, American composer
  • December 31
    • John Denver, singer-songwriter (died 1997)
    • Peter Quaife, bassist (The Kinks) (died 2010)

Deaths

  • January 17 – Jane Avril, can-can dancer, 64
  • February 5 – Sim Gokkes, Dutch composer, 45 (in Auschwitz concentration camp)
  • 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 operatic soprano, 70
  • March 19 – Abel Decaux, composer, 74
  • March 28
    • Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85
    • Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, 69
  • April 4 – David Roitman, hazzan and composer, 58
  • April 12 – Edoardo Garbin, operatic tenor, 78
  • April 21 – Josima Feldschuh, pianist and composer, 13 (tuberculosis)
  • 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 26 – Alice Tegnér, organist and composer, 77
  • 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, 27
  • 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
    • Max Bouvet, operatic baritone (born 1854)
    • Harry Kandel, bandleader (born 1885)
    • Erhard Wechselmann, baritone opera singer (born 1895?) (killed in Auschwitz concentration camp)

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  19. (August 28, 1954). "Decca Records 20th Anniversary".
  20. "Decca matrix L 3197. Pistol packin' Mama / The Andrews Sisters; Bing Crosby – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  21. (16 January 1943). "The Billboard Jan 16, 1943, p. 59".
  22. "Columbia 78rpm numerical listing discography 35500 to 36000".
  23. "Decca matrix DLA 3034. Moonlight becomes you / Bing Crosby – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  24. "Victor matrix PBS-072558. (As long as you're not in love with anyone else) Why don't you fall in love with me / Dinah Shore; Paul Wetstein – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  25. "Decca matrix L 3203. I'll be home for Christmas / Bing Crosby – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  26. "Decca matrix 71338. Comin' in on a wing and a prayer / The Song Spinners – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  27. "Decca matrix L 3181. People will say we're in love / Bing Crosby; Trudy Irwin – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  28. "Decca matrix 71237. Don't get around much anymore / Ink Spots – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  29. "Victor matrix PBS-072558. (As long as you're not in love with anyone else) Why don't you fall in love with me / Dinah Shore; Paul Wetstein – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  30. (30 January 1943). "The Billboard Jan 30, 1943, p. 62".
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  33. "Decca matrix 70348. Paper doll / Mills Brothers – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  34. "Decca matrix 71237. Don't get around much anymore / Ink Spots – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  35. "Decca matrix 71378. You'll never know / Dick Haymes – Discography of American Historical Recordings".
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  39. [https://goodmorningbritten.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/listening-to-britten-serenade-for-tenor-horn-and-strings-op-31/ Good Morning Britten]
  40. {{IRCAM work. 33945. Aaron Copland: ''Music for the Movies''
  41. "Repertoire: Fanfare for the Common Man".
  42. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rv6dgw/series BBC]}
  43. [http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/fr/ressources/compositeurs/biographies/dutilleux-henri-1916-2013 Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine]
  44. {{IRCAM work. 21967. Morton Feldman: ''Dirge in Memory of Thomas Wolfe''
  45. "Boston Symphony Orchestra".
  46. {{IRCAM work. 31595. Alberto Ginastera: Dances from ''Estancia''
  47. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150703123053/http://www.carlfischer.com/composer/hanson-howard/ Carl Fischer Music]
  48. Anon. "Symphony by Harris in Boston Premiere: Work, Dedicated to Russia, Is Feature of Special Program", ''The New York Times'' (27 February 1943): 11.
  49. {{IRCAM work. 35234. André Jolivet: ''Les trois complaintes du soldat''
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  53. [http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W11781_67674 Hyperion Records]
  54. {{IRCAM work. 19469. Olivier Messiaen: ''Visions de l'Amen''
  55. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rv6dgw/series BBC Symphony]
  56. [http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557162&catNum=557162&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English Naxos Records]
  57. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oGS7RiUPuGgC&pg=PA458 Apreciación Musical]
  58. "Kimmel Center".
  59. [http://www.classicalconnect.com/Piano_Music/Prokofiev/Sonata_No_7/4750 Classical Connect]
  60. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v0l9zLpsOmoC&dq=prokofiev+the+year+1941+rabinovich&pg=PA440 The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years]
  61. [http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php/es/instrumentos-solistas-con-orquesta/item/625-concierto-heroico Joaquín Rodrigo website]
  62. "Boston Symphony".
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  64. {{IRCAM work. 7392. Dmitri Shostakovich: ''Six Romances on Verses by English Poets''
  65. [http://nyphil.org/~/media/pdfs/program-notes/1415/ShostakovichSymphony%20No%208.pdf New York Philharmonic]
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  75. {{IRCAM work. 12621. Anton Webern: ''Drei Lieder'', Op. 23
  76. {{IRCAM work. 12658. Anton Webern: Variations for Orchestra
  77. (2006). "The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers". Macmillan.
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