Events in Music
Music Premiere
Oct 8 Cole Porter and E. Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" opens at the Music Box Theater, NYC; runs for 195 performances
- Oct 8 Joseph Szigeti debuts Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 3 Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer (National Ballet of Canada), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1986)
- Oct 4 Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player, musician, writer, filmmaker and father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, born in Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Oct 9 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (Kaivos), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 2016)
- Oct 10 Julian "Junior" Mance, American jazz pianist (Dinah Washington; Dizzy Gillespie), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021)
- Oct 11 Saulius Sondeckis, Lithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader (Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, 1960-2004), born in Šiauliai, Lithuania (d. 2016)
- Oct 11 Russell Oberlin, American countertenor (Pro Musica Antiqua, 1952-66) and educator (Hunter, 1966-94), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 2016)
- Oct 12 Jerzy Semkow, Polish-French conductor and educator, born in Radomsko (d. 2014)
- Oct 14 Gary Graffman, American pianist (Leventritt Award), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 17 Ivan Marinov, composer
- Oct 22 Clare Fischer, American musician, composer and arranger, born in Durand, Michigan (d. 2012)
- Oct 23 Alexander Tanev, Bulgarian composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1996)
- Oct 23 Patrick Peter Sacco, American composer, born in Albion, New York (d. 2000)
Deaths in Music
- Oct 30 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, American musicologist, dies at 55