Deaths in Music on August 19

  • 1744 Carlo Arrigoni, Italian composer and musician, dies at 46
  • 1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
  • 1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, dies at 67
  • 1812 Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
  • 1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
  • 1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
  • 1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
  • 1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
  • 1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, French composer, dies at 63
  • 1881 Joseph Labitzky, Bohemian composer, dies at 79
  • 1892 František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, dies at 62
  • 1900 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, dies at 67
  • 1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
  • 1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
  • 1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
  • 1936 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
  • 1944 Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London's promenade "Proms" concerts (Gentle Art of Singing, My Life of Music), dies following an illness at 75
  • 1963 Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
  • 1975 Ima Hogg, American society leader, Texas art patron and founder of Houston Symphony, dies at 93
  • 1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
  • 1979 Dorsey Burnette, American rockabilly singer (The Rock and Roll trio), dies at 46
  • 1991 Richard Maltby Sr., American musician and orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 77
  • 1995 Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
  • 2001 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
  • 2008 LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), dies at 46
  • 2017 Bea Wain, American singer and radio host (Deep Purple, Heart and Soul), dies at 100

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