Events in Music
Music Premiere
Sep 11 Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress", with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
Birthdays in Music
- Sep 2 Mike Kaminski, British rock musician (ELO), born in Harrogate, England
- Sep 4 Martin Chambers, English rock drummer (Pretenders), born in Hereford, United Kingdom
- Sep 5 Jamie Oldaker, American session and touring drummer (Bob Seger; Leon Russell; Eric Clapton; Peter Frampton), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2020)
Chrissie Hynde (71 years old)
Sep 7 American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pretenders - "Brass In Pocket"), born in Akron, Ohio
- Sep 7 Mark Isham, American musician and film composer (The Hitcher), born in NYC, New York
- Sep 7 Morris Albert [Maurício Alberto Kaisermann], Brazilian singer ("Feelings"), born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Sep 8 Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer and songwriter, born in Piraeus, Attica, Greece
- Sep 9 Corry Konings, Dutch singer (Crying Is Too Late For You) and actress, born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- Sep 9 Tom Wopat, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard; One Life to Live) and singer (Consider It Swung), born in Lodi, Wisconsin,
- Sep 10 Peter Tolson, English rock guitarist (Pretty Things, 1970-81), born in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire (d. 2016)
- Sep 14 Doina Rotaru, Romanian contemporary classical composer, born in Bucharest, Romania
- Sep 18 Dee Dee Ramone [Douglas Colvin], American punk rock bassist (Ramones), born in Fort Lee, Virginia (d. 2002)
- Sep 19 Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer (Brian Eno; U2; Peter Gabriel; Bob Dylan), and singer-songwriter, born in Hull, Quebec, Canada
- Sep 19 Richard Dashut, American record producer (Bob Welch; Fleetwood Mac: Lindsey Buckingham), born in West Hollywood, California
- Sep 21 (John) "Willie" Wilcox, American drummer (Utopia, Todd Rundgren; Hall & Oates), born in Glen Falls, New York
- Sep 21 Henk Hofstede, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist (Nits), born in Amsterdam, Holland
- Sep 25 Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter (Ambrosia -"Biggest Part of Me"; Tin Drum), born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
- Sep 26 Stuart Tosh, Scottish drummer, and singer (The Alan Parsons Project; 10cc), born in Aberdeen, Scotland
- Sep 26 Tony Sales, American rock bassist (Todd Rundgren; Iggy Pop; Tin Machine), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Sep 27 Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage), born in Montreal, Quebec
Deaths in Music
- Sep 3 Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Sep 9 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, dies at 56
- Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
- Sep 10 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66
- Sep 14 Fritz Busch, German conductor, dies at 61
- Sep 15 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
- Sep 17 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, dies somewhere between age 50 and 57 - (birth year documentation uncertain)
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