Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 3 Georges Bizet's last and greatest opera "Carmen" premieres at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France
- Mar 14 Bedřich Smetana's symphonic poem "Vysehrad" premieres
Birthdays in Music
Maurice Ravel
Mar 7 Maurice Ravel, French composer, pianist and conductor (Daphnis et Chloé; Boléro), born in Ciboure, France (d. 1937)
- Mar 9 Martin Shaw, English composer, born in London (d. 1958)
- Mar 10 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, and composer (Contrapuntal Sketches), born in Kishinev, Russia (d. 1961)
- Mar 12 Julio Garreta, composer
- Mar 14 Norman O'Neill, English composer, born in Kensington, London (d. 1934)
- Mar 29 Paul Rubens, English musical comedy composer (Miss Hook of Holland), born in London (d. 1917)
