Musicologists in History (Part 2)

Events in Music


Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 311

  • 1882-07-07 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, Polish composer and music historian, born in Lwów, Ukraine (d. 1953)
  • 1882-08-03 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, born in Cotacachi, Ecuador (d. 1972)
  • 1882-09-19 Paul-Marie Masson, French musicologist (L’Opéra de Rameau), and composer, born in Sète, France (d. 1954)
  • 1882-10-12 Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist and composer, born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 1954)
  • 1882-12-16 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, (Psalmus Hungaricus; Hary Janos), born in Kecskemét, Hungary (d. 1967)
  • 1883-03-21 Jules van Nuffel, Belgian composer, priest, and musicologist (Nova Organi Harmonia), born in Hemiksem, Belgium (d. 1953)
  • 1883-08-10 Carlos Lavín, Chilean composer (Lamentaciones Huiliches), and ethnomusicologist, born in Santiago, Chile (d. 1962)
  • 1883-09-05 Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist (Schubert-Brevier), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1967)
  • 1883-10-11 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
  • 1883-11-16 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist and composer (In Tempore Belli) (d. 1958)
  • 1884-02-29 Alfred Sendrey, American composer and musicologist, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1976)
  • 1884-05-22 Alceo Toni, Italian arranger (Vivaldi's "Four Season's" for piano four-hands), composer (Elegiac Quintet), and musicologist, born in Lugo di Romagna (d. 1969)
  • 1884-12-19 Ferdinando Liuzzi, Italian composer and musicologist, born in Senigallia, Italy (d. 1940)
  • 1885-03-28 Marc Delmas, French composer, chiefly of stage and choral works, and musicologist, born in Saint-Quentin, France (d. 1931)
  • 1885-10-21 Egon Wellesz, Austrian-British composer (Alkestis; The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo), teacher, and musicologist (Byzantine), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1974)
  • 1886-01-10 Jose Antonio de Donostia, Basque musicologist and composer, born in Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain (d. 1956)
  • 1886-04-05 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1955)
  • 1887-03-23 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn catalog), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
  • 1887-06-03 Emil Axman, Czech composer and musicologist (Moravian folk songs), born in Rataje (d. 1949)
  • 1887-06-28 Boleslav Vomácka, Czech composer (Vodntk - The Water Sprite), critic, and musicologist (Josef Suk), born in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)
  • 1887-11-14 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian musicologist, conductor, and composer, born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1971)
  • 1888-02-20 Vasyl Barvinsky, Ukrainian pianist, composer, conductor, musicologist ("Béla Bartók in Lviv"), and teacher (Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, 1915-48), born in Ternopil, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1963)
  • 1890-01-22 Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist, born in Vratišinec, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (d. 1976)
  • 1890-02-15 Semyon Bogatyrev, Russian and Soviet musicologist and composer (completed a symphony abandoned by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1960)
  • 1890-11-30 John Tasker Howard, American composer and music historian, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1964)
  • 1891-02-07 Joachim Stutschewsky, Austrian-Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist, born in Romni, Ukraine (d. 1982)
  • 1892-02-01 Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall), born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1959)
  • 1892-04-06 Mateusz Gliński, Polish conductor, musicologist (Scriabin, Chopin), composer, and pedagogue (Winsdor University), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1976)
  • 1892-06-30 László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1963)
  • 1892-08-15 Knud Jeppesen, Danish organist, composer, educator (Royal Danish Academy, 1920-47; Aarhus University, 1946-57), and musicologist (La frottola), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1974)
  • 1893-01-05 Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik), born in Schlüchtern, Germany (d. 1975)
  • 1893-05-16 Paul Amadeus Pisk, Austrian-American composer, musicologist, and educator, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1990)
  • 1893-06-22 Osvald Chlubna, Czech composer (Symphony of Life and Love; In Spring), and musicologist, born in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) (d. 1971)
  • 1893-10-10 Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard Dictionary of Music), born in Konitz, West Prussia (d. 1988)
  • 1894-04-27 Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American, pianist, conductor, musicologist (Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians), and composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1995)
  • 1895-05-14 Renato Lunelli, composer Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Trent, Austria-Hungary (now Trento, Italy) (d. 1967)
  • 1896-01-20 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1961)
  • 1896-08-19 Eino Linnala, Finnish composer, pedagogue (University of Helsinki, 1927-66), and musicologist, born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1973)

Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

1896-12-28 American Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Concerto for Orchestra; The Black Maskers), musicologist, and educator (Princeton, 1936-45, 53-65; Berkeley, 1945-53), born in Brooklyn, New York

  • 1897-04-08 Herbert Eimert, German composer and musicologist (Glockenspiel), born in Bad Kreuznach, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1972)
  • 1898-07-15 Norman Demuth, British composer and musicologist specializing in French works, born in Croyden, Surrey, England (d. 1968)
  • 1899-09-26 William L. Dawson, American choir director, composer (Negro Folk Symphony), educator, and musicologist, born in Anniston, Alabama (d. 1990)
  • 1899-10-01 Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1986)
  • 1899-11-29 Gustave Reese, American musicologist and composer, born in New York City (d. 1977)
  • 1900-04-02 Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist, born in Hörde, Germany (d. 1969)
  • 1900-07-31 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, born in Posen, Prussia (d. 1973)
  • 1901-02-25 Federico Ghisi, Italian chemist, musicologist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Shanghai, China (d. 1975)
  • 1901-07-15 John Wesley Work III, African-American composer, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music, born in Tullahoma, Tennessee (d. 1967)
  • 1901-08-28 Paul Henry Lang, Hungarian-American critic and musicologist (NY Herald Tribune), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1991)
  • 1901-09-05 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1981)
  • 1901-10-08 Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Eidsborg, Norway (d. 1977)
  • 1902-10-23 Otto J. Gombosi, Hungarian-American musicologist, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1955)
  • 1902-11-16 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, born in Stalhille, Jabbeke, Belgium (d. 1985)
  • 1903-02-11 Hans Redlich, Austrian-English composer and musicologist (Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1968)
  • 1903-11-09 Margaret Fay Shaw, American photographer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist, known for her work in the Scottish Hebrides, born in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
  • 1903-12-04 Siro Cisilino, Italian composer and musicologist, born in Mereto di Tomba, Italy (d. 1987)
  • 1904-08-17 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1991)
  • 1904-09-14 Karel Šrom, Czech composer, musicologist, critic, and broadcaster, born in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1981)
  • 1905-01-25 Julia Smith, American composer (Prairie Kaleidoscope; Cynthia Parker), pianist (Orchestrette Classique), teacher, and musicologist (Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music), born in Denton, Texas (d. 1989)
  • 1905-02-26 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), born in Canton, Missouri (d. 1992)
  • 1905-03-18 John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (Concord Sonata) and musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), born in New York City (d. 1991)
  • 1905-05-08 Inglis Gundry, British composer, musicologist and novelist, born in Wimbledon, London (d. 2000)
  • 1905-05-21 Edward Lockspeiser, British composer and musicologist (Debussy: His Life and Mind), born in London (d. 1973)
  • 1905-11-12 Solon Michaelides, Cypriot composer, teacher, and musicologist, born in Nicosia, Cyprus (d. 1979)
  • 1906-01-15 Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1962)
  • 1906-05-23 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, German composer, teacher, musicologist, and painter, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1988)
  • 1906-06-28 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1973)
  • 1906-07-14 Arthur Hutchings, English composer and musicologist, born in Sunbury-on-Thames, England (d. 1989)
  • 1906-10-12 Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar, born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1997)
  • 1907-02-17 Alec Wilder, American classical, jazz, and pop music composer (The Churkendoose), and musicologist (American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1980)
  • 1907-03-19 Marc Vaubourgoin, French composer, conductor, and musicologist, born in Caudéran, France (d. 1983)
  • 1907-04-01 Walter Kaufmann, German-American conductor (Winnipeg Symphony, 1948-57), composer (Navaratnam), and musicologist (The Ragas of South India), born in Karlsbad, Germany (d. 1984)
  • 1907-08-18 Otto Mortensen, Danish composer and musicologist, born in Copenhagen (d. 1986)
  • 1908-10-11 Armen Carapetyan, American musicologist and composer, born in Isfahan, Iran (d. 1992)
  • 1908-10-21 Howard Ferguson, British-Irish pianist, composer, teacher and musicologist, born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) (d. 1999)
  • 1909-07-01 Vera Brodsky Lawrence, American concert pianist (CBS Symphony) and musicologist (Joplin; Gottschalk), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1996)
  • 1909-07-13 David Branson, British piano prodigy, composer, musicologist, and visual artist, born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England (d. 1987)
  • 1909-07-25 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Italian opera conductor, musicologist, pianist and composer, born in Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1996)
  • 1910-03-24 Jacques Chailley, French musicologist and composer, born in Paris (d. 1999)
  • 1910-04-07 Obdulio Morales, Cuban pianist, conductor, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Afro-Cuban bandleader, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1981)
  • 1910-10-18 Vojislav Vučkovič, Serbian conductor, composer (Vesnik bure (The Harbinger of the Storm)), and musicologist, born in Pirot, Serbia (d. 1942)
  • 1910-12-16 Stanojlo Rajičić, Serbian composer, educator, and musicologist, born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia (d. 2000)
  • 1911-01-17 Hermann Pfrogner, Austrian musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus), and educator (Munich Music College, 1958-74), born in Graz, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
  • 1911-03-09 Ramon Campbell Batista, Chilean physician, composer, and ethnomusicologist (traditional music of the Rapanui people), born in Quilpué, Chile (d. 2000)
  • 1911-04-03 Watkins Shaw, British musicologist, born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England (d. 1996)
  • 1911-05-23 Boris Kremenliev, Bulgarian-American composer (The Tell-Tale Heart), educator (UCLA, 1947-78), and ethnomusicologist (Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music), born in Razlog, Bulgaria (d. 1988)
  • 1911-06-10 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1984)
  • 1912-04-22 Miguel Querol Gavalda, Spanish musicologist and composer, born in Ulldecona, Spain (d. 2002)
  • 1913-03-05 Julian Krein [Yulian Kreyn], Russian composer (Razrusheniye (Destruction)), and musicologist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1996)
  • 1913-12-20 Jozef Kresánek, Slovak composer and musicologist, born in Čičmany, Kongdom of Hungary (now Slovakia) (d. 1986)
  • 1914-02-08 Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music; Maurice Ravel), born in Heule, Netherlands (d. 2008)
  • 1914-04-26 Wilfrid Howard Mellers, English musicologist and composer (François Couperin and the French Classical Tradition), born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (d. 2008)
  • 1914-05-15 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Chey, Belgium (d. 1962)
  • 1914-09-25 Frederick Wilhelm Sternfeld, Austrian musicologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1994)
  • 1914-10-30 Marius Flothuis, Dutch composer, (Kleine Suite for 12 Harps; Espressioni Cordiali), artistic director (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1955–74), musicologist (Mozart), and music critic, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2001)
  • 1914-11-03 Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic musicologist, composer, teacher and conductor, born in Eyrarbakki, Iceland (d. 1994)
  • 1915-01-31 Alan Lomax, American ethnomusicologist, and folklorist (Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song), born in Austin, Texas (d. 2002)
  • 1915-04-12 Ernest Borneman, German sexual researcher, psychotherapist, musician and writer (Bang, You're Dead), born in Berlin (d. 1995)
  • 1915-06-15 Patrick Piggott, British pianist, composer, and musicologist (The Life & Music of John Field; The Innocent Diversion - Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen), born in Dover, England (d. 1990)
  • 1915-08-26 Humphrey Searle, British composer and musicologist (Twentieth Century Counterpoint; The Music of Franz Liszt), born in Oxford, England (d. 1982)

Deaths in Music

Deaths 101 - 200 of 272

  • 1959-01-09 Edwin A. Fleisher, American music patron (founder of the Symphony Club), musicologist (The Fleisher Collection), and philanthropist, dies at 71 [1]
  • 1959-02-05 Curt Sachs, German musicologist, dies at 77
  • 1959-10-13 Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Concert Amsterdam), dies at 67
  • 1960-11-10 Isadore Freed, Belarusian-American composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (Harmonizing the Jewish Modes), dies at 60
  • 1960-12-03 Hermann Stephani, German organist, and musicologist, dies at 83
  • 1960-12-31 Semyon Bogatyrev, Russian and Soviet musicologist and composer (completed a symphony abandoned by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), dies at 70
  • 1961-02-06 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, dies at 77
  • 1961-09-23 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), dies at 65
  • 1962-03-06 Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
  • 1962-08-27 Carlos Lavín, Chilean composer (Lamentaciones Huiliches), and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
  • 1962-10-28 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 48
  • 1963-02-16 László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor, dies at 70
  • 1963-06-09 Vasyl Barvinsky, Ukrainian pianist, composer, conductor, musicologist ("Béla Bartók in Lviv"), and teacher (Lysenko Higher Institute of Music, 1915-48), dies at 75
  • 1963-10-09 Thurlow Lieurance, American composer (By the Waters of Minnetonka; Sad Moon on Falling Leaf), ethnomusicologist (Indigenous peoples), and educator, dies at 85
  • 1964-11-20 John Tasker Howard, American composer and music historian, dies at 73
  • 1965-03-01 Boleslav Vomácka, Czech composer (Vodntk - The Water Sprite), critic, and musicologist (Josef Suk), dies at 77
  • 1965-03-03 Carlo Gatti, Italian musicologist (Verdi), dies at 88
  • 1967-01-14 Renato Lunelli, Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 71
  • 1967-05-17 John Wesley Work III, African-American composer, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music, dies at 65
  • 1967-07-26 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch classical composer, critic, and musicologist dies at 79
  • 1968-04-21 Norman Demuth, British composer and musicologist specializing in French works, dies at 69
  • 1969-10-27 Jaime Pahissa, Spanish-born composer and musicologist, dies at 89
  • 1969-12-04 Alceo Toni, Italian arranger (Vivaldi's "Four Season's" for piano four-hands), composer (Elegiac Quintet), and musicologist, dies at 85
  • 1971-07-27 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor, composer, and musicologist, dies at 83
  • 1971-10-30 Osvald Chlubna, Czech organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 78
  • 1972-01-31 Istvan Szelenyi, Hungarian composer and musicologist, dies at 67
  • 1972-11-18 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, dies at 90
  • 1972-12-15 Herbert Eimert, German composer and musicologist (Glockenspiel), dies at 75
  • 1973-02-03 Edward Lockspeiser, British composer and musicologist (Debussy: His Life and Mind), dies at 67
  • 1973-03-26 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, dies at 67
  • 1973-06-08 Eino Linnala, Finnish composer, pedagogue (university of Helsinki, 1927-66), and musicologist dies at 76
  • 1973-07-30 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
  • 1973-08-01 Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer, pedagogue (Venice Liceo Musicale, 1932-52), and musicologist (Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi). s at 91
  • 1974-06-14 Knud Jeppesen, Danish organist, composer, educator (Royal Danish Academy, 1920-47; Aarhus University, 1946-57), and musicologist (La frottola), dies at 81
  • 1974-11-09 Egon Wellesz, Austrian-British composer (Alkestis; The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo), teacher, and musicologist (Byzantine), dies at 89
  • 1975-07-18 Federico Ghisi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 74
  • 1976-01-03 Mateusz Gliński, Polish conductor, musicologist (Scriabin, Chopin), composer, and pedagogue (Winsdor University), dies at 83
  • 1976-03-03 Alfred Sendrey [Szendrei], Hungarian-American organist, conductor, musicologist, and composer, dies at 92
  • 1976-12-12 Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
  • 1977-02-08 Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at 75
  • 1977-03-30 Levko Revutsky, Ukrainian composer, music editor and pedagogue, dies at 88
  • 1977-09-06 Guido Pannain, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 85
  • 1977-09-07 Gustave Reese, American musicologist (Music in the Middle Ages; Music in the Renaissance), and teacher, dies at 77
  • 1979-09-09 Solon Michaelides, Cypriot composer, teacher, and musicologist, dies at 73
  • 1979-09-10 Stanyslav Lyudkevych, Ukranian composer, and musicologist, dies at 100
  • 1980-12-24 Alec Wilder, American classical, jazz, and pop music composer (The Churkendoose), and musicologist (American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950), dies at 73 [1]
  • 1981-01-09 Obdulio Morales, Cuban pianist, conductor, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Afro-Cuban bandleader, dies at 70
  • 1981-05-07 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
  • 1981-10-21 Karel Šrom, Czech composer, musicologist, critic, and broadcaster, dies at 77
  • 1982-03-13 Albert Weisser, American musicologist and composer, dies at 64
  • 1982-05-12 Humphrey Searle, British composer and musicologist (Twentieth Century Counterpoint; The Music of Franz Liszt), dies at 66
  • 1982-11-14 Joachim Stutschewsky, Austrian-Israeli cellist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 91
  • 1983-04-01 Marc Vaubourgoin, French composer, conductor, and musicologist, dies at 76
  • 1983-11-01 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
  • 1984-04-13 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti), dies at 72
  • 1984-09-09 Walter Kaufmann, German-American conductor (Winnipeg Symphony, 1948-57), composer (Navaratnam), and musicologist (The Ragas of South India), dies at 77

Roger Sessions (1896-1985)

1985-03-16 American Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Concerto for Orchestra; The Black Maskers), musicologist, and educator (Princeton, 1936-45, 53-65; Berkeley, 1945-53), dies at 88

  • 1985-12-04 Marcel Boereboom, Belgian pianist, critic, educator, and musicologist (Handbook of Music History), dies at 83
  • 1986-08-30 Otto Mortensen, Danish composer and musicologist, dies at 79
  • 1986-11-18 Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
  • 1987-03-04 Siro Cisilino, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 83
  • 1988-03-14 Willi Apel, German-American musicologist (Harvard Dictionary of Music), dies at 94
  • 1988-04-25 Boris Kremenliev, Bulgarian-American composer (The Tell-Tale Heart), educator (UCLA, 1947-78), and ethno-musicologist (Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music), dies at 76
  • 1988-07-01 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, German composer, teacher, musicologist, and painter, dies at 82
  • 1988-12-14 Hermann Pfrogner, Austrian musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus), and educator (Munich Music College, 1958-74), dies at 77
  • 1989-02-21 Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili, Georgian composer, conductor, teacher, and musicologist, dies at 64
  • 1989-04-18 Julia Smith, American composer (Prairie Kaleidoscope; Cynthia Parker), pianist (Orchestrette Classique), teacher, and musicologist (Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music), dies at 84
  • 1989-05-11 Jitka Snížková, Czech composer, music educator and musicologist, dies at 64
  • 1990-01-12 Paul Amadeus Pisk, Austrian-American composer, musicologist, and educator, dies at 96
  • 1990-05-02 William L. Dawson, American choir director, composer (Negro Folk Symphony), educator, and musicologist, dies at 90
  • 1990-05-09 Patrick Piggott, British pianist, composer, and musicologist (The Life & Music of John Field; The Innocent Diversion - Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen), dies at 74
  • 1991-05-27 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), dies at 86
  • 1991-11-08 John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (Concord Sonata) and musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies at 86
  • 1992-08-09 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), dies at 87
  • 1992-09-05 Armen Carapetyan, Americn musicologist and composer, dies at 83
  • 1993-09-11 Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, dies at 68
  • 1993-09-15 Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
  • 1994-01-13 Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79
  • 1994-10-22 David Buchan, Scottish ethnomusicologist, dies at 55
  • 1994-11-27 Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist, dies at 97
  • 1995-01-22 Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, dies of AIDS complications 48
  • 1995-03-10 Alexander Hyatt King, English musicologist and Mozart scholar, dies at 84
  • 1995-07-06 Ivor Keys, British organist, musicologist, and academic (University of Nottingham; University of Birmingham), dies at 76
  • 1995-11-11 Kenneth S. Goldstein, American folklorist and record producer, dies at 68
  • 1995-11-17 Pete Welding, American music writer (Down Beat), musicologist (Testament Records), and jazz and blues record producer (Doug Quattlebaum), dies of a heart attack at 60
  • 1995-12-06 Claire Polin (Schaff), American contemporary classical, composer flautist, and musicologist, dies at 69
  • 1995-12-25 Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-American pianist, conductor, musicologist (Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians), and composer, dies at 101
  • 1996-02-02 Minao Shibata, Japanese composer and musicologist, dies at 79
  • 1996-02-05 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Italian opera conductor, musicologist, pianist and composer, dies at 86
  • 1996-03-19 Christopher Headington, English composer, musicologist and pianist, dies at 65
  • 1996-05-05 Salli Terri [Stella Tirri], Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning pop-classical-folk-exotica singer, arranger, composer (Duets with the Spanish Guitar), musicologist, and educator, dies after a series of strokes at 75
  • 1996-05-28 Julian Krein [Yulian Kreyn], Russian composer (Razrusheniye (Destruction)), and musicologist, dies at 83
  • 1996-07-31 Paul Crawford, American Dixieland jazz musician, arranger, (Olympic Brass Band), and music historian (Tulane University), dies of lung cancer at 71
  • 1996-09-18 Vera Brodsky Lawrence, American concert pianist (CBS Symphony) and musicologist (Joplin; Gottschalk), dies at 87
  • 1996-10-08 Watkins Shaw, British musicologist, dies at 85
  • 1996-12-18 Arthur Jacobs, English musicologist (Penguin Dictionary of Music), dies at 74
  • 1997-02-19 Jarmil Burghauser [Mokrý], Czech composer, choirmaster, conductor, and musicologist, dies at 75
  • 1997-04-18 David Branson, British piano prodigy, composer, musicologist, and visual artist, dies at 88
  • 1997-05-05 Tolia Nikiprowetzky, French composer, ethnomusicologist and broadcaster of Russian heritage, dies at 80
  • 1997-05-09 Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar, dies at 90