Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 3 Gustav Strube, German-American conductor (Baltimore Symphony, 1916-30), composer (The Captive), and educator (Peabody Conservatory), born in Ballenstadt, Saxony (d. 1953)
- Mar 15 Will Rossiter, composer
- Mar 25 Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (La Scala, 1898-1908 & 1921-29; Metropolitan Opera, 1908-15; New York Philharmonic, 1926-36; NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1937-41 & 1944-54), born in Parma, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1957)
- Mar 27 Edyth Walker, American opera singer, born in Hopewell, New York (d. 1950)