Birthdays in Music Mar 24 Aimé Maillart, French opera composer (Les Dragons de Villars), born in Montpellier, Hérault, France (d. 1871) Mar 28 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Spanish composer, born in Murcia, Spain (d. 1880) Deaths in Music Mar 1 Luigi Gatti, Italian composer, dies at 77 Mar 13 Matej Sojka, Bohemian composer, dies at 77 Mar 18 Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67 1816 Music History by Year 1818