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March – Composers Anniversaries

Born

Died

Composer

March 1

 
1 March 1810 17 October 1849 Frédéric Chopin
1 March 1878 3 August 1914 Gabriel Dupont
12 February 1567 1 March 1620 Thomas Campion
September 1583 1 March 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi
29 January 1715 1 March 1777 Georg Christoph Wagenseil
12 September 1818 1 March 1882 Theodor Kullak

March 2

 
2 March 1824 12 May 1884 Bedrich Smetana
2 March 1892 21 December 1964 Thomas Nassi
2 March 1900 3 April 1950 Kurt Weill
2 March 1913 8 May 1996 Celedonio Romero
2 March 1916 3 January 1983 Bernard Stevens
2 March 1921 21 November 1997 Robert Simpson
8 June 1867 2 March 1945 Jean Baptiste Lemire

March 3

 
3 March 1895 12 November 1980 Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen
3 March 1904 2 January 1993 Karl Ahrendt
1 September 1653 3 March 1706 Johann Pachelbel
17 August 1686 3 March 1768 Nicola Porpora
12 May 1755 3 March 1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti
10 April 1864 3 March 1932 Eugen d’Albert

March 4

 
4 March 1678 27 July 1741 Antonio Vivaldi
4 March 1877 9 July 1957 Alexander Gedike
23 August 1854 4 March 1925 Moritz Moszkowski
1 February 1907 4 March 1992 Sandor Veress

March 5

 
5 March 1774 8 October 1842 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
5 March 1887 17 November 1959 Lobos Heitor Villa
5 March 1899 17 December 1973 Patrick Hadley
12 March 1710 5 March 1778 Thomas Augustine Arne
25 July 1883 5 March 1947 Alfredo Casella
23 April 1891 5 March 1953 Sergei Prokofiev

March 6

 
6 March 1872 21 August 1940 Paul Juon
6 November 1854 6 March 1932 John Philip Sousa
16 December 1882 6 March 1967 Zoltán Kodály

March 7

 
7 March 1659 21 November 1695 Henry Purcell
7 March 1663 9 May 1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali
7 March 1875 28 December 1937 Maurice Ravel
7 March 1887 16 June 1970 Heino Eller
7 March 1895 5 September 1968 Juan José Castro
20 June 1899 7 March 1965 Anthon van der Horst
27 July 1912 7 March 1983 Igor Markevitch

March 8

 
8 March 1566 8 September 1613 Carlo Gesualdo
8 March 1714 14 December 1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
8 March 1857 9 August 1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo
8 March 1911 21 June 2000 Alan Hovhaness
29 March 1902 8 March 1983 William Walton
11 December 1803 8 March 1869 Hector Berlioz
17 August 1835 8 March 1901 Peter Benoit
1 September 1886 8 March 1957 Othmar Schoeck

March 9

 
9 March 1737 4 February 1781 Josef Myslivecek
9 March 1910 23 January 1981 Samuel Barber
11 September 1925 9 March 1999 Harry Somers

March 10

 
10 March 1844 20 September 1908 Pablo Martin Melinton Sarasate de
Navasquez
10 March 1892 27 November 1955 Arthur Honegger
10 March 1899 26 November 2001 Grete von Zieritz
23 January 1752 10 March 1832 Muzio Clementi
23 May 1794 10 March 1870 Ignaz Moscheles
23 June 1824 10 March 1910 Carl Reinecke
5 June 1943 10 March 1981 G.W. Bill Hopkins
15 January 1909 10 March 1991 Elie Siegmeister

March 11

 
11 March 1818 10 February 1897 Antonio Bazzini
11 March 1876 24 October 1971 Carl Ruggles
11 March 1897 10 December 1965 Henry Dixon Cowell
11 March 1912 7 May 2002 Xavier Montsalvatge
11 March 1921 4 July 1992 Astor Piazzolla
25 March 1882 11 March 1959 Haydn Wood
13 June 1765 11 March 1807 Anton Eberl
30 August 1960 11 March 1993 Kevin Oldham

March 12

 
12 March 1515 4 February 1553 Caspar Othmayer
12 March 1710 5 March 1778 Thomas Augustine Arne
12 March 1837 29 March 1911 Félix Alexandre Guilmant
11 September 1786 12 March 1832 Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau
5 October 1813 12 March 1869 Ernst Haberbier
21 February 1844 12 March 1937 Charles Marie Widor
15 September 1858 12 March 1937 Jeno Hubay
1562/1563 12/13 March 1628 John Bull

March 13

 
13 March 1700 28 October 1768 Michel Blavet
13 March 1860 22 February 1903 Hugo Wolf

March 14

 
14 March 1681 25 June 1767 Georg Philipp Telemann
14 March 1804 25 September 1849 Johann Sr. Strauss
14 March 1815 2 December 1880 Josephine Lang

March 15

 
15 March 1835 28 December 1916 Eduard Strauss
15 March 1864 4 December 1935 Johan Halvorsen
15 March 1901 7 January 1964 Colin McPhee
14 September 1760 15 March 1842 Luigi Cherubini
21 August 1893 15 March 1918 Juliëtte Lili Boulanger
18 October 1871 15 March 1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky

March 16

 
4 January 1710 16 March 1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
28 December 1896 16 March 1985 Roger Huntington Sessions
26 May 1898 16 March 1990 Ernst Bacon

March 17

 
17 March 1839 25 November 1901 Joseph Rheinberger
17 March 1880 26 June 1971 Holguín Guillermo Uribe
3 April 1895 17 March 1968 Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
8 January 1912 17 March 1980 Rudolf Escher
ca. 1746 17 or 18 March 1804 Ivan Evstaf’evich Khandoshkin

March 18

 
18 March 1844 21 June 1908 Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky- Korsakov
18 March 1882 1 August 1973 Gian Francesco Malipiero
21 January 1858 18 March 1937 Mélanie Mel Bonis
8 September 1894 18 March 1947 Willem Pijper

March 19

 
19 March 1816 17 January 1891 Johannes Verhulst
19 March 1873 11 May 1916 Max Reger
1665 19 March 1697 Nicolaus Bruhns
1869 19 March 1943 Abel Marie Decaux

March 20

 
20 March 1863 2 February 1934 Ernesto Nazareth
20 March 1918 10 August 1970 Bernd Alois Zimmermann
12 February 1760 20 March 1812 Jan Ladislav Dusík (Dussek)
12 June 1842 20 March 1866 Rikard Nordraak
28 September 1913 20 March 2000 Vivian Fine

March 21

 
21 March 1685 28 July 1750 Johann Sebastian Bach
21 March 1839 28 March 1881 Modest Mussorgski
21 March 1904 20 September 1949 Nikos Skalkottas
23 March 1878 21 March 1934 Franz Schreker
10 August 1865 21 March 1936 Alexander Glazunov
15 June 1910 21 March 1975 Berend Giltay

March 22

 
22 March 1891 2 January 1966 Manuel Alexis Roland
28 November 1632 22 March 1687 Jean Baptiste Lully
24 September 1910 22 March 1996 Vaclav Nelhybel

March 23

 
23 March 1844 9 December 1925 Eugene Gigout
23 March 1878 21 March 1934 Franz Schreker
25 September 1786 23 March 1806 George Frederic Pinto

March 24

 
3 November 1587 24 March 1654 Samuel Scheidt
27 July 1867 24 March 1916 Enrique Granados y Campina
20 July 1873 24 March 1921 Déodat de Séverac

March 25

 
25 March 1699 16 December 1783 Johann Adolf Hasse
25 March 1881 26 September 1945 Béla Bartók
25 March 1882 11 March 1959 Haydn Wood
22 August 1862 25 March 1918 Claude Debussy
15 September 1923 25 March 1979 Anton Heiller

March 26

 
1450 26 March 1517 Heinrich Isaac
1510 26 March 1566 Antonio de Cabezón
appr. 1590 26 March 1657 J. Joncker Jacob van Eyck
16 December 1770 26 March 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven
18 February 1835 26 March 1918 César Antonowich Cui
20 February 1878 26 March 1965 Emiel Hullebroeck

March 27

 
27 March 1851 2 December 1931 Vincent d’Indy
27 March 1854 28 October 1912 Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel
27 March 1882 3 April 1972 Ferde Grofé
ca. 1670 27 March 1746 Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer
19 June 1717 27 March 1757 Johann Stamitz
2 August 1891 27 March 1975 Arthur Bliss
3 December 1896 27 March 1979 Boleslaw Szabelski
17 April 1897 27 March 1992 Harald Sæverud

March 28

 
28 March 1741 18 June 1799 Johann André
21 March 1839 28 March 1881 Modest Mussorgski
1 April 1873 28 March 1943 Sergey Rachmaninoff

March 29

 
29 March 1902 8 March 1983 William Walton
12 March 1837 29 March 1911 Félix Alexandre Guilmant
30 November 1813 29 March 1888 Charles Valentin Morhange Alkan
30 September 1852 29 March 1924 Charles Stanford
6 October 1882 29 March 1937 Karol Szymanowski
10 July 1895 29 March 1982 Carl Orff

March 30

 
30 March 1727 6 April 1779 Tommaso Traetta
3 September 1695 30 March 1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli
9 November 1723 30 March 1787 Anna Amalia von Preußen
8 December 1811 30 March 1864 Louis Schindelmeisser

March 31

 
31 March 1684 13 September 1755 Francesco Durante
31 March 1732 31 May 1809 Franz Joseph Haydn
31 March 1747 10 June 1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
10 July 1835 31 March 1880 Henri Wieniawski