Musicians Who Died in 1929

Feb 24 André Charles Prosper Messager, French organist, composer and conductor (Les Deux Pigeons, Véronique), dies at 75
Feb 27 Manuel Manrique de Lara, Spanish composer (The Oresteia), dies at 65
Feb 28 John Ebenezer West, English composer, dies at 65
Mar 15 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, American jazz pianist and singer (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies of a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight at 24
Mar 22 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, dies at 64
Apr 15 Antonio Smareglia, Italian composer, dies at 74
Apr 22 Ödön Mihalovich, Hungarian composer, dies at 86
May 4 Henry Morton Dunham, American composer, dies at 75
May 16 Lilli Lehmann, German opera soprano (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 80
Jul 4 Otto Taubmann, German composer, dies at 70
Jul 22 Bror Beckman, Swedish composer, dies at 63
Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
Aug 19 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies freom complications of diabetes at 57
Sep 18 Hermann Gradener, German composer, dies at 85
Nov 11 Mieczyslaw Soltys, Polish composer, dies at 66
Nov 19 Arthur Henry Mann, English organist and composer (Kings College Cambridge, Church of England Hymnal), dies at 79
Nov 23 Arvid Kleven, Norwegian flautist and composer, dies at 29
Nov 26 Michele Esposito, Italian composer who worked in Ireland, dies at 74
Dec 13 Knut Algot Håkanson, Swedish composer, dies at 42
Dec 19 Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 36