Events in Music
- Sep 12 Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
Birthdays in Music
- Sep 2 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
- Sep 3 Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
- Sep 14 Lehman Engel, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire), born in Jackson, Mississippi
- Sep 18 Josef Tal, Israeli composer (Israeli art music), born in Pinne, German Poland (d. 2008)
- Sep 18 Leon Stein, American composer, born in Chicago (d. 2002)
- Sep 19 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian and singer (Romany Jones), born in London (d. 1995)
- Sep 22 Klement Slavicky, composer
- Sep 23 Soulima Stravinsky, Swiss-American pianist and composer (Igor Stravinsky's son), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1994)
- Sep 24 Frank Pelleg, composer