Musicians Who Died in March 1959

  • Mar 11 Haydn Wood, English violinist, and composer of light classical music (Roses of Picardy), dies at 76
  • Mar 15 Lester Young, American jazz musician, dies at 49
  • Mar 17 Raffaele d'Alessandro, Swiss pianist, organist, and composer, dies of a ruptured aorta on his 48th birthday
  • Mar 25 Billy Mayerl, British pianist, music hall songwriter, theatre composer (Marigold), music publisher, and teacher (School of Syncopation), dies of a heart attack at 55
  • Mar 29 Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, Swedish composer, dies at 84