1962 in music

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Deaths

• January 29 - Fritz Kreisler
• February 5 - Jacques Ibert, composer
• February 17 - Bruno Walter, conductor
• February 22 - Attila the Hun, calypso singer
• March 24 - Jean Goldkette, jazz musician
• April 10 - Stuart Sutcliffe, former member of The Beatles, cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage
• May 27 - Egon Petri, pianist
• June 12 - John Ireland, composer
• June 13 - Sir Eugène Aynsley Goossens, conductor
• June 15 - Alfred Cortot, pianist and conductor
• July 12 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, bandleader
• July 25 - Christie MacDonald, actress and singer
• September 6 - Hanns Eisler, composer
• December 7 - Kirsten Flagstad
• December 13 - Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist
• December 22 - Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist