Events in Music
Scottish
Mar 3 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd ("Scottish") Symphony in Leipzig Gewandhaus
Nabucco
Mar 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 22 Carl Rosa, German-born violinist and composer (founder of the Rosa opera company that toured UK and US), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1889)
- Mar 22 Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Taras Bulba), conductor and ethno-musicologist, born in Hrynky, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1912)
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