Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 7 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's 14th and final comic opera together "The Grand Duke" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
Music History
Mar 16 Gustav Mahler' conducts premiere of his "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" (Songs of a Wayfarer), leading the Berlin Philharmonic and Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans as soloist
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 1 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek-American pianist, conductor (Minneapolis Symphony, 1937-49; New York Philharmonic, 1949-58), and composer, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1960)
- Mar 7 Erwin Bodky, German-American composer, born in Ragnit, East Prussia (d. 1958)
- Mar 12 Jesse Fuller, American one-man blues band ("San Francisco Bay Blues"), born in Jonesboro, Georgia (d. 1979)
- Mar 26 Richard Flury, Swiss composer, born in Biberist, Switzerland (d. 1967)
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