Music year 1939

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Music year 1939
The music industry is also affected by the start of the Second World War .

Events

March 20 : The German Reichsmusikkammer announces that unwanted musical works whose relocation and performance is prohibited will be included in a list in future (see also composers persecuted during the Nazi era ). The First List of Unwanted Musical Works was not published until the war began.

Jazz / swing

Artie Shaw, around 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

January 1st : In the first week of the year, Artie Shaw tops the US charts with "They Say". The song recorded for Bluebird Records is sung by his band vocalist Helen Forrest .
January 7th : Artie Shaw & His Orchestra reached number 1 in the US charts next week, this time with “Thanks for Everything”, composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the musical of the same name.
January 14th : This week the Casa Loma Orchestra with "I Cried for You", Erskine Hawkins with "Do You Wanna Jump, Chillun?", Don Redman with "Margie" and Fats Waller with "You Look Good to Me" successful in the charts.
January 21 : "Buck Dance Rhythm" (# 12) is the last of the five hit listings by the duo Slim & Slam .
February 4th : The fourth, most successful, but also the last number 1 hit of the Larry Clinton orchestra is his recording of the song "Deep Purple" ( Mitchell Parish ) for Victor Records ; in the same year he is also brought to the US charts by Jimmy Dorsey , Artie Shaw , Guy Lombardo and Bing Crosby . Trummy Young sings "'T'ain't What ou Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", with which the Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra came to # 11 on the charts.
February 25 : An album with five 78ern of Artie Shaw makes it into the top 20; it is considered the first directly produced concept album in pop history with selected melodies from popular musicals and operettas, including Gershwin's " The Man I Love ".
March 11th : With "Heaven Can Wait" by Eddie DeLange and Jimmy Van Heusen , the Casa Loma Orchestra made it to # 1 in the US charts, in which Tommy Dorsey was also successfully represented this week
March 18th : Chick Webb hits the charts with “Undecided” ; the title was written by Charlie Shavers for the sextet of John Kirby , which reached # 19 in the same week.
April 1st : " When the Saints Go Marching In " hits its first hit list (# 10) in the version by Louis Armstrong for Decca .
April 8 : The US charts leads the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with "Our Love," which Larry Clinton after the Overture from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky wrote.
April 22nd : With “And the Angels Sing” Benny Goodman has his tenth number 1 hit in the USA; the song by Ziggy Elman (with the text by Johnny Mercer ) is initially called "Frahlich in Swing" and goes back to the song "Shtiler Bulgar".
May 13 : Woody Herman and His Orchestra 's “Woodchopper's Ball” makes it to # 9 on the hit parade; the piece was initially a head arrangement improvised during an engagement at Brooklyn's Roseland Ballroom. Glenn Miller made it to # 2 on the US charts this week with “The Lady's in Love with You”; Frank Loesser and Burton Lane wrote the number for the film musical Some Like It Hot (1939).
June 3rd : In Jack Teagarden's version , “The Sheik of Araby” becomes the jazz standard.
June 17 : Louis Armstrong hits the charts with his new recording of the "West End Blues" (# 13), in which Woody Herman with "Blue Evening" and Glenn Miller with "Stairway to the Stars" and "Little Brown Jug ”are represented.
July 1st : After the 2nd movement from Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony (1988), Glenn Miller's number 1 hit “Moon Love” is created.
July 15 : While the orchestras of Glenn Miller, Larry Clinton , Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey dominated the charts, Billie Holidays racism accusation " Strange Fruit " made it to # 16 on the US hit parade.
July 29th : With "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin 'Jive (Jim-Jam-Jump)" Cab Calloway made it to position 2 on the charts, which was also recorded by The Andrews Sisters , Van Alexander , Jimmy Dorsey and Nat Gonella . Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" reached # 3 and became Miller's signature tune with countless radio broadcasts.
August 12th : The pianist Art Tatum made it into the top 20 for one week with his version of the classic " Tea for Two ".
August 19 : Number 1 this week is Over the Rainbow , popular from the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland .

September 2 : Bob Crosby tops the charts with Johnny Mercer's "Day In, Day Out"; The band singer is Helen Ward . Crosby's version of the later standard “ What's New? “Also makes it into the top ten; the song became the signature tune of his orchestra. After Chick Webb's death, Ella Fitzgerald took over his band and had her first hit under her own name with “I Want the Waiter with the Water”.

September 9 : The Glenn Miller Orchestra tops the charts with Hoagy Carmichael's “Blue Orchids”; the song stays in the top 30 for 12 weeks.

September 16 : Charlie Barnet makes it to # 15 in the US charts with “For Tonight”, Bob Crosby with his version of “Over the Rainbow” at # 2 for two weeks.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - In The Mood

October 7th : Glenn Miller has one of his greatest hits with “ In the Mood ”; he is twelve weeks at position 1 on the US charts, in which he remains for thirty weeks.
October 11th : Coleman Hawkins records " Body and Soul " in what is set to be his greatest triumph; The tenor saxophonist wins first place in the Down Beat critical poll, ahead of Charlie Barnet , Eddie Miller and Chu Berry .
October 14 : Charlie Barnet hits # 15 on the charts with his recording of the Ray Noble song " Cherokee ".
November 18th : Van Alexander had his first and only hit with “Hot Dog Joe” (# 13); the song stayed in the charts for three weeks.
December 9th : Les Brown had his first chart success with “Make with the Kisses” (# 18), before he hit the charts again in 1941 with “Lament to Love”. Number 1 this week takes Tommy Dorsey's orchestra with Al Dubin's “Indian Summer”.
December 16 : Tommy Dorsey makes it to number 1 on the US charts with “ All the Things You Are ”, in which Glenn Miller, Bob Crosby and Erskine Hawkins (“Tuxedo Junction”) are also represented this week .
December 30th : “Your Feet's Too Big” is one of the numerous ungalant songs by Fats Waller ; it reached number 15 on the charts, where it stayed for a week.

Harry James forms his own band, with Frank Sinatra as the vocalist.
Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers join the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Frederic Ramsey and Charles Edward Smith publish Jazzmen, one of the first books on jazz music .

Classic

February 4th : The world premiere of the operetta The Hungarian Wedding by Nico Dostal on the libretto by Hermann Hermecke takes place in Stuttgart .

February 5th : The opera Der Mond by Carl Orff, based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm , is premiered under the direction of Clemens Krauss at the National Theater in Munich .

February 14th : The opera Marionetter ( Marionetten ) by Hilding Rosenberg has its world premiere at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

March 20 : The Reichsmusikkammer announces that unwanted musical works , the relocation and performance of which is prohibited, will be included in a list in future (see also Composers Persecuted During the National Socialist era ). The First List of Unwanted Musical Works was not published until the war began.

March 23 : Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 has its world premiere with Zoltán Székely and the Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Willem Mengelberg .

April 1st : The world premiere of the musical comedy The Black Pike by Paul Burkhard takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . Today it is one of the most popular musical dialects in Switzerland.

Marian Anderson at her concert at the Lincoln Memorial

April 9 : Singer Marian Anderson gives a concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial in front of around 75,000 people after the Conservative Women's Association Daughters of the American Revolution prevented her from performing as an African American at Constitution Hall .

Gian Carlo Menotti

April 22 : The premiere of the opera The Old Maid and the Thief of Gian Carlo Menotti takes place in New York City.

May 17th : Sergei Prokofiev's cantata Alexander Nevsky ( Op. 78 ) makes its debut in Moscow. It is an adaptation of the film Alexander Nevsky .

June 10 : Arthur Bliss ' Piano Concerto with pianist Solomon premieres in New York ; also Arnold Bax ' 7th Symphony and Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult .

June 21 : Francis Poulenc's concert for organ, strings and timpani premieres in Paris.

October 7th : The world premiere of the opera Die Kathrin by Erich Wolfgang Korngold based on a libretto by Ernst Décsey takes place under the direction of Fritz Busch at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

November 11th : Bruno Walter leaves Nazi Germany.

November 21 : The 6th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich is premiered in Leningrad by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Yevgeny Mravinsky .

November 23 : Zoltán Kodály's orchestral variations Der Pfau flew have their world premiere in Amsterdam.
December 31 : The Vienna Philharmonic give - under the direction of Clemens Krauss - their first New Year's concert .

Blues recordings

Po 'Gal - Zora Neale Hurston
Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay - Blind Boy Fuller
The Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly
De Kalb Blues - Lead Belly
The Gallis Pole - Lead Belly
Thinking My Blues Away - Sonny Boy Williamson I.

Other events

December : Ali Akbar Khan accompanies Ravi Shankar on the sarod on his first appearance at the annual music conference in Allahabad .

Born

January February

January 10 : Scott McKenzie , singer
January 12th : Thomas Müller , German conductor, composer and pianist
January 16 : Siegfried Uhlenbrock , German pop singer and composer
January 19 : Phil Everly , American singer
January 20 : Katerina Zlatníková , German musician
January 24th : Rudolf Josel , Austrian valve trombonist
January 29th : Jeanne Lee , American jazz singer

Alan Silva 1969

January 29 : Alan Silva , American jazz bassist

0February 1 : Claude François , French musician, composer, chansonnier and record producer
0February 1 : Joe Sample , American musician and producer
0February 3 : Johnny Bristol , American soul singer, producer and songwriter
0February 3rd : Luise Mirsch , German music producer
0February 5 : Evžen Zámečník , Czech composer, conductor and musician
0February 9 : Rick Abao , American jazz musician, composer and entertainer
0February 9 : Barry Mann , American producer
February 10 : Barbara Kolb , American composer
February 11 : Gerry Goffin , American songwriter
February 11th : Okay Temiz , Turkish ethno-jazz musician, band leader and composer
February 12 : Ray Manzarek , American keyboardist
February 15th : Csaba Deseő , Hungarian violist
February 16 : Czesław Niemen , Polish rock musician
February 18 : Marek Janowski , a German conductor
February 19 : Vladimir Andreevich Atlantov , Russian opera singer
February 20 : Adele Haas , Austrian opera singer and vocal teacher
February 21 : Hanno Haag , German composer
February 21 : Armin Rosin , German musicologist, conductor and musician
February 23 : Esteban Jordan , American musician
February 24 : John Neumeier , American dancer and choreographer
February 25 : Richard Oschanitzky , Romanian jazz musician and composer
February 26th : Trevor Watts , British jazz musician
February 28 : John Fahey , American fingerstyle guitarist and composer, musicologist and record label founder

Charles Gayle (2007)

February 28 : Charles Gayle , American jazz saxophonist
February 28 : Erika Pluhar , Austrian actress, singer and writer

March April

0March 1st : Leo Brouwer , Cuban conductor, guitarist, percussionist, composer, arranger and music teacher

Leo Brouwer
0March 2nd : Marcelle Deschênes , Canadian composer
0March 4 : Hans Jürgen Wenzel , German composer († 2009 )
0March 9 : Rohan de Saram , British cellist
0March 9 : Benjamin Zander , British conductor
March 11 : Flaco Jiménez , American Tex-Mex musician
March 12 : Veriano Luchetti , Italian opera singer († 2012 )
March 12 : Arkady Severny , Russian songwriter († 1980 )
March 13 : Neil Sedaka , American musician and songwriter
March 18 : Peter Kraus , Austrian actor and singer
March 18 : Yannis Markopoulos , Greek composer and singer
March 19 : Hermann Becht , German opera singer († 2009 )
March 19 : Mike Longo , American jazz musician
March 20 : Don Edwards , American country musician
March 21 : Ronnie Haig , American rockabilly and gospel musician
March 23 : Boris Tishchenko , Russian composer († 2010 )
March 26th : Peter Schneider , Austrian conductor
March 27 : Eugen Brixel , Austrian composer, musician and musicologist († 2000 )

0April 1 : Royce Porter , American country and rockabilly musician and songwriter
0April 2 : Marvin Gaye , American soul singer († 1984 )
0April 4 : Hugh Masekela , South African musician († 2018 )

Hugh Masekela
0April 4th : Danny Thompson , British double bass player
0April 5 : Guggi Löwinger , Austrian singer, actress and dancer († 2018 )
0April 7th : Vaçe Zela , Albanian singer († 2014 )
April 11 : Luther Johnson , American blues singer and guitarist
April 12th : Peter Giger , Swiss percussionist
April 15th : Marty Wilde , British rock and roll singer
April 16 : Dusty Springfield , British soul singer († 1999 )
April 20 : Hans Kennel , Swiss jazz musician
April 23 : Patrick Williams , American composer († 2018 )
April 28 : Zsigmond Szathmáry , Hungarian organist, pianist, composer and conductor

May June

0May 1 : Judy Collins , American singer
0May 3rd : Ralf Hübner , German jazz drummer and composer
0May 5 : Dieter Wiesmann , Swiss songwriter († 2015 )
0May 6th : Isla Eckinger , Swiss jazz musician
07 May : José Antonio Abreu , Venezuelan composer, economist, politician, educator, activist
0May 7 : Johnny Maestro , American singer
08 May : Hans Eugen Frischknecht , Swiss composer, organist, choir director and harpsichordist
0May 8 : Bill Watrous , American jazz trombonist († 2018 )
0May 9 : Bruce Mather , Canadian composer
May 19 : Sonny Fortune , American jazz musician († 2018 )
May 19th : Tomasz Sikorski , Polish composer
May 19 : Richard Teitelbaum , American composer, synthesizer player and improvisation musician († 2020 )
May 20 : Hans-Dieter Möller , German organist and music teacher
May 20 : Roc LaRue , American rockabilly musician († 2019 )
May 21 : Heinz Holliger , Swiss oboist, composer and conductor
May 22nd : Árni Egilsson , bassist and composer from Iceland
May 22nd : Ian Underwood , American musician
May 23 : Volker Bräutigam , German composer and church musician
May 23 : Michel Colombier , French film composer († 2004 )
May 23 : Marvin Stamm , American jazz trumpeter
May 23 : Kent Westberry , American country and rockabilly musician
May 26 : Michel Merlet , French composer and music teacher
May 27 : Don Williams , American country singer († 2017 )
May 30 : Michael Small , American film composer

0June 1st : Rolf Römer , German jazz musician
0June 2nd : Maximilian Hendler , Austrian Slavist, composer, author and musicologist
0June 3 : Manfred Hering , German jazz musician
0June 3rd : Ian Hunter , British rock musician
0June 5th : Manuel de Elías , Mexican composer
0June 6th : Louis Andriessen , Dutch composer
0June 6 : Gary US Bonds , American rock 'n' roll and R&B singer
0June 8th : Torolf Mølgaard , Danish jazz musician
0June 9 : Ileana Cotrubaș , Romanian opera singer
June 11 : Bernard "Pretty" Purdie , American drummer
June 12th : Kent Carter , American jazz musician
June 16 : Billy "Crash" Craddock , American country and rock'n'roll musician
June 16 : Albert Dailey , American jazz pianist
June 18 : Oleg Grigoryevich Jantschenko , Russian organist composer and conductor
June 19 : Al Wilson , American soul musician († 2008 )
June 22nd : Heikki Sarmanto , Finnish jazz musician
June 24th : Joe van Enkhuizen , Dutch jazz musician
June 24th : Brigitte Fontaine , French singer, actress and writer
June 27 : George Braith , American jazz musician

July August

0July 2 : Paul Williams , American singer (The Temptations) († 1973 )
0July 3 : Brigitte Fassbaender , German opera and lied singer, director and artistic director
0July 4th : Jean-Pierre Leguay , French organist and composer
0July 6 : Terence 'Jet' Harris , English musician († 2011 )
0July 7th : Siegmund Schmidt , German composer and church musician
July 10 : Mavis Staples , American blues and soul singer
July 10 : Vicente Moncho , Argentine composer and violinist
July 10 : Yochk'o Seffer , French jazz musician
July 13 : György Szabados , Hungarian jazz musician († 2011 )
July 14 : Karel Gott , Czech singer († 2019 )

Karel Gott (2002)
July 14th : Vince Taylor , British rock 'n' roll and rockabilly musician († 1991 )
July 17th : Spencer Davis , British rock musician
July 17th : Milva , Italian singer and actress
July 18th : Brian Auger , British jazz and rock organist
July 18 : Dion DiMucci , American pop singer
July 18 : Kurt Nolze , German songwriter
July 21 : Jamey Aebersold , American jazz saxophonist and teacher
July 22 : Warda al-Jaza'iriya , Algerian singer († 2012 )
July 24 : Charles McPherson , American jazz musician
July 24 : Daniel Viglietti , Uruguayan singer and guitarist († 2017 )
July 26 : Gunther Erdmann , German composer († 1996 )
July 27 : Irène Aebi , Swiss jazz musician
July 29th : Gian Piero Reverberi , Italian composer, arranger and music producer
July 31 : Daniel N. Tobler , Swiss music organizer († 2011 )

0August 4 : Wolfgang Ostberg , German actor, radio play speaker and singer († 2011 )
0August 9 : Billy Henderson , American soul singer († 2007 )
0August 9 : Butch Warren , American jazz musician († 2013 )
August 10 : Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito , Filipino-German pianist
August 11th : Attila Bozay , Hungarian composer († 1999 )
August 13 : Rolf Schwendter , Austrian songwriter, writer and social scientist († 2013 )
August 16 : Marcello Melis , Italian jazz musician and composer († 1994 )
August 16 : Billy Joe Shaver , Canadian singer
August 17 : Luther Allison , American blues musician († 1997 )
August 17 : Ed Sanders , American beatnik poet and musician (The Fugs)
August 18 : Johnny Preston , American rock 'n' roll and rockabilly singer († 2011 )
August 19 : Ginger Baker , British drummer († 2019 )
August 19 : Tony Marsh , British jazz drummer († 2012 )
August 19 : Caiphus Semenya , South African musician
August 20 : Enrico Rava , Italian jazz trumpeter

Enrico Rava
August 25 : Robert Jager , American composer
August 26th : Dagmar Koller , Austrian singer, dancer and actress
August 27 : Hans Heinrich Formann , Austrian writer († 2016 )
August 28 : Robert Aitken , Canadian flautist, composer and music teacher
August 30 : John Peel , British radio host and DJ († 2004 )
August 31 : Paul Winter , American saxophonist and band leader

September October

0September 2nd : Elaine Keillor , Canadian pianist and musicologist
0September 3rd : Vivi Bach , Danish singer, actress, television presenter and writer
0September 4th : Mario Casoni , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver

David Allan Coe (2008)

0September 6 : David Allan Coe , American country musician
0September 9 : Zbigniew Namysłowski , Polish jazz musician
September 13 : Arleen Augér , American soprano
September 16 : Hans Rettenbacher , Austrian jazz musician
September 18 : Steve Marcus , American saxophonist
September 18 : Kate Westbrook , British jazz musician
September 23 : Roy Buchanan , American blues rock guitarist
September 29 : Tommy Boyce , American rock and roll musician and music writer
September 30th : Bata Illic , Serbian-German pop singer

0October 4th : Frank Lendor , Dominican opera bassist
0October 7th : Tony Glover , American harmonica player and singer
0October 8th : Aladár Pege , Hungarian jazz musician
0October 8 : Andrew Thomas , American composer
October 16 : Nico Haak , Dutch pop singer and entertainer
October 17th : Reiner Goldberg , German opera singer
October 18 : Jean-Claude Amiot , French composer
October 19 : Masabumi Kikuchi , Japanese jazz musician
October 20th : Fausto Cepeda , Dominican opera baritone
October 24th : Mirjana Irosch , Austrian opera and operetta singer
October 25 : Robert Cogoi , Belgian singer
October 27 : Dallas Frazier , American country singer and songwriter
October 28 : Andy Bey , American jazz singer
October 29th : Horst Chmela , Austrian songwriter
October 29th : Makaya Ntshoko , South African jazz musician
October 29 : Petru Stoianov , Romanian composer and musicologist
October 30 : Gerhard Schnitter , German composer
October 30th : Grace Slick , American singer
October 30th : Eddie Holland , American songwriter

Ali Farka Touré

October 31 : Ali Farka Touré , Malian musician

November December

0November 2nd : Heinz-Gert Freimuth , German choir director and composer
0November 3 : Joe McPhee , American jazz musician
0November 3rd : Ute Trekel-Burckhardt , German opera singer
0November 4th : Robert Politzer , Austrian jazz musician
0November 5th : Marek Jablonski , Canadian pianist and music teacher
0November 5th : Kai Rautenberg , German pianist and composer
0November 7th : Daan Manneke , Dutch composer and conductor
November 10 : Andrew Cyrille , American drummer
November 10th : Hubert Laws , American jazz flutist
November 12th : Lucia Popp , opera singer
November 14th : Wendy Carlos , American composer and electronic musician
November 16 : WC Clark , American blues musician
November 16 : Henrik Otto Donner , Finnish composer and jazz musician
November 18 : Amanda Lear , British singer
November 18 : Tom Johnson , American composer and music critic
November 21 : Etta Cameron , Danish jazz singer of American origin
November 23 : Betty Everett , American soul singer
November 26th : Greetje Kauffeld , Dutch pop and jazz singer
November 26th : Art Themes , British Jazz Musician

Tina Turner, 1985

November 26th : Tina Turner , American-Swiss singer
November 29th : Hermann Dechant , Austrian conductor, flautist, musicologist, composer and publishing director

0December 6 : Steve Alaimo , American pop singer and teen idol of the 1960s
0December 8th : Jerry Butler , American soul singer and songwriter
0December 8th : James Galway , British flautist
December 11th : André Brasseur , Belgian keyboardist
December 15 : Nicolaus A. Huber , German composer
December 15th , Hildegard Uhrmacher , German singer
December 16 : Barney McKenna , Irish folk singer
December 16 : Philip Langridge , British opera and oratorio singer
December 17th : James Booker , American pianist and singer
December 17th : Eddie Kendricks , American soul singer
December 20 : Bill Keith , American bluegrass musician
December 21 : Carlos do Carmo , Portuguese Fado singer
December 22nd : Nick Ceroli , American jazz musician
December 22nd : Franz Kalchmair , Austrian bass
December 23 : Paul Damjakob , German organist
December 23 : La Lupe , Cuban singer
December 25th : Don Alias , American jazz musician
December 25 : Bob James , American keyboardist and arranger
December 26 : Ken Howard , British pop music writer

Phil Spector (2009)

December 26th : Phil Spector , American music producer
December 29th : Ed Bruce , American country musician
December 30th : Felix Pappalardi , rock producer and bass player

Died

January to April

January 1 : John Petersen , German violinist, composer and music teacher
January 6th : Ernst Markees , Swiss pianist, composer and music teacher
January 9 : Julius Bittner , Austrian composer

Johann Strauss III (1866-1939)

January 9th : Johann Strauss (grandson) , Austrian composer and conductor.
February 9 : Herschel Evans , American jazz tenor saxophonist
February 11 : Gustav Lange , Norwegian composer
February 11 : Franz Schmidt , Austrian composer
February 12 : Karl Kromer , composer and musician from Baden
February 16 : Ferdinand Vach , Czech musician
February 17th : Willy Hess , German violin virtuoso and violin teacher
March 6th : Karl Pembaur , composer, choir director and church musician
March 7th : Amadeo Roldán , Cuban violinist and conductor
March 17th : Rufus Payne , American blues musician
March 20 : Lotte Lorring , German actress and singer
March 21 : Evald Aav , Estonian singer, composer and choir director
April 5th : Jörg Mager , pioneer of electronic music
April 8 : Emilio Serrano , Spanish pianist and composer

Paula Menotti at the Ronachertheater. Ink drawing by Adolf Geringer

April 17th : Paula Menotti , Austrian singer
April 21 : Joe Young , American songwriter
April 24th : John Foulds , English composer
April 26 : Louis Brisset , French composer

May to August

Robert Teichmüller

May 6th : Robert Teichmüller , German pianist and university professor
May 8 : Robert Lachmann , German ethnomusicologist, librarian and orientalist
May 10 : Sigfús Einarsson , Icelandic composer
May 24th : Carl Woitschach , German music director and composer
June 2 : Friedrich Munter , German conductor, musicologist and composer
June 2nd : Josef Reiter , Austrian music teacher, choir director, conductor and composer
June 4th : Tommy Ladnier , American jazz trumpeter
June 4th : Emil Seling , German conductor, music teacher and composer
June 16 : Chick Webb , American jazz drummer and band leader
June 21 : AA Gray , American country musician
July 18 : Witold Maliszewski , Polish composer and music teacher
July 23 : Carl Thiel , German organist, church musician and professor of music
July 27th : José Martínez , an Argentine musician (guitarist, pianist), band leader and composer of Tango Argentino
August 3 : August Enna , Danish musician and composer
August 9 : Franz Naval , opera singer
August 22nd : Helmut Hampe , German music teacher and ornithologist

September to December

September 2nd : Harfen-Agnes , German bailiff singer
September 3 : Frederick H. Blair , Canadian organist, choir conductor, pianist and music teacher
September 6th : Karl Hammes , German opera singer and fighter pilot
September 10 : Hugo Riesenfeld , Austrian-American film composer
September 18 : Cornelis Dopper , Dutch composer and conductor
September 25th : Emil Mattiesen , German-Baltic musician, music teacher, composer and philosopher
September 25th : Alfred Wotquenne , Belgian librarian and musicologist
September 28 : Felicjan Szopski , Polish composer, pianist, music critic and teacher

October 14 : Polaire , Algerian-French dancer, singer and actress
October 16 : Ludolf Nielsen , a Danish composer
October 19 : Marie Renard , Austrian opera singer

November 1st : Charles Weinberger , Austrian operetta composer
November 4th : Charles Tournemire , French organist and composer
November 23 : Artur Bodanzky , Austrian-American violinist, concert conductor and conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York
November 25 : Josef Engel de Jánosi , Hungarian councilor, landowner, writer

December 1st : August Max Fiedler , German conductor, composer and pianist
December 8 : Ernest Schelling , American pianist, composer and conductor
December 12th : Ernst Kunwald , Austrian conductor

Ma Rainey

December 22nd : Ma Rainey , American blues singer

Exact date of death unknown

Domingo Brescia , Italian composer and music teacher
Hermine Esinger , Austrian pianist, organ virtuoso and last Liszt student
Charlie Irvis , American jazz trombonist
Margaret Johnson , American jazz pianist
John Robichaux , American band leader, drummer and violinist of New Orleans Jazz
Louis-Edouard Vuillermoz , French horn player and music teacher

Web links

Commons : Music 1939 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opernlibretti 1939 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Teddy Doering: Coleman Hawkins. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 2001, ISBN 3-923657-61-7 , p. 44
↑ All chart information comes from Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International, ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .

[1] Teddy Doering: Coleman Hawkins. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 2001, ISBN 3-923657-61-7 , p. 44

[Klußmeier-2] All chart information comes from Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International, ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .