Musicians Who Died in November 1942

  • Nov 1 Hugo Distler, German organist, choral conductor and composer, commits suicide at 34

George M. Cohan (1878-1942)

Nov 5 American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64

  • Nov 16 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß, A Star Fell from Heaven), dies from a heart attack at 38
  • Nov 19 Édouard Combe, Swiss composer, dies at 76