Events in Music
- Mar 5 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele" premieres in Milan
- Mar 9 The opera "Hamlet" by Ambroise Thomas premieres in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 22 Hamish MacCunn, Scottish composer (The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), and teacher, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1916)
- Mar 27 Patty Smith Hill, American composer, teacher and songwriter ("Happy Birthday To You"), born in Anchorage, Kentucky (d. 1946)
- Mar 28 Wojciech Gawroński, Polish pianist and composer, born in Sejmany, Russian Empire [now Lithuania] (d. 1910)
Deaths in Music
- Mar 2 Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81