Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 21 Beethoven's "String Quartet No. 13" in B flat major (Op 130) premieres in Vienna

Ludwig van Beethoven
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 1 John Thomas, Welsh composer and harpist, born in Bridgend (d. 1913)
- Mar 9 Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist and composer, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1895)
- Mar 12 Robert Lowry, composer
- Mar 14 William Fiske Sherwin, American composer, born in Buckland, Massachusetts (d. 1888)
- Mar 23 Ludwig Minkus, Austrian ballet composer, born in Vienna (d. 1917)