Birthdays in Music Mar 27 Ishmail Spicer, American publisher, music teacher, and composer, born in Bozrah, Connecticut (d. 1832) Mar 27 Marie-Jean Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer, born in Paris (d. 1842) Deaths in Music Mar 14 Anton Filtz [Fils], German composer, dies at 26 1759 Music History by Year 1761