1950 in music

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Deaths

• February 26 - Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
• April 3 - Kurt Weill, composer in many styles
• April 8 - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer
• July 1 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, developer of Eurhythmics
• July 11 - Buddy De Sylva, songwriter
• August 8 - Nikolai Myaskovsky, Soviet composer and teacher of Polish birth
• October 23 - Al Jolson
• December 1 - Ernest John Moeran, composer
• December 2 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist
• December 22 - Walter Damrosch, conductor and composer (born 1862)
• December 31 - Charles Koechlin, composer and teacher (born 1867)