Musicians Who Died in June 1953

Florence Price (1888-1953)

Jun 3 American composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932) and 1st African-American woman to have a composition played by a major orchestra, dies at 66

Jun 10 Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 73
Jun 17 Walter Niemann, German composer, dies at 76
Jun 29 Jules van Nuffel, Belgian composer, priest, and musicologist (Nova Organi Harmonia), dies at 70
Jun 30 Göte Carlid, Swedish composer (Eine kleine Teemusik), dies at 32