Events in Music
- Mar 7 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" (The Crusader in Egypt) premieres at La Fenice in Venice with famous castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti singing
Music Premiere
Mar 24 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" in St. Petersburg
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 2 [Friedrich] Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (The Bartered Bride; Má Vlast; Moldau), born in Litomyšl, Bohemia (d. 1884)