Musicians Who Died in September 1949

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Sep 8 German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), dies at 85

  • Sep 11 Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L'ete), dies at 75

Harry Burleigh (1866-1949)

Sep 12 African American baritone and composer (Five Songs of Laurence Hope), and Springarn Medal winner (1917), dies at 82

  • Sep 20 Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer, dies due to an untreated hernia at 45
  • Sep 24 Pierre de Bréville, French composer, author and professor (Une histoire du théâtre lyrique en France), dies at 88