Feb 1 August Halm, German composer, dies at 59 Feb 5 Siegfried Ochs, German composer, dies at 70 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 Jan 1929 Deaths in Music by Year Mar 1929 Famous Singers Country Singers Jazz Singers Opera Singers Pop Singers Rappers Rock Singers