- Mar 1 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 63
- Mar 4 Carl Leopold Röllig, German composer, glass-harmonica player, composer, and inventor (bowed pianos - orphica and xänorphika), dies at about 65 [birth date uncertain]
- Mar 20 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47