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Nicolas-Étienne Framery (25 March 1745, Rouen – 26 November 1810, Paris) was a French music theorist, critic and lyric writer associated with opera, especially opéra comique. He wrote and adapted librettos. His work became more academic and abstract and he eventually became surintendant de la musique for the Comte d'Artois, (who would become Charles X of France).

Salvatore Viganò (March 25, 1769 – August 10, 1821), was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer. Viganò was born in Naples. He studied composition with Luigi Boccherini (his uncle) and by the mid-1780s was composing original music. In 1788, he appeared as a dancer on the stage in Venice. He performed in the coronation festivities of Charles IV of Spain in 1789. He became a pupil of the French dancer and choreographer Jean Dauberval. In 1791, he and his wife achieved success as a dancing team in Venice, where he choreographed his first ballet, Raoul de Créqui. He was ballet master in Vienna and collaborated with Beethoven on the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. He returned to Italy in 1804 and became the ballet master of La Scala ballet school in Milan. He is considered the father of a new kind of performance called "coreodramma" where the pantomime served the dance and the ensembles were very significant. He died in Milan. Viganò's elder sister, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli was also a dancer and the librettist of Rossini's first opera Demetrio e Polibio.

François-Joseph Fétis (French: [fetis]; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer. He was among the most influential music intellectuals in continental Europe. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; 25 March [O.S. 13 March] 1833 – 12 October [O.S. 30 September] 1893) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.

William Wallace Furst (March 25, 1852 – July 11, 1917) was an American composer of musical theatre pieces and a music director, best remembered for supplying incidental music to theatrical productions on Broadway.

Teodoro Bailo Tena (25 March 1866 - 6 August 1962) was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor. Tena studied violin at the Conservatory of Zaragoza. He continued to study violin under Jesús de Monasterio and music composition under Aranguren and Santamaria in Madrid.Tena won first place at the Conservatory of Zaragoza in 1884. He founded the Music School of Zaragoza (la Escuela de Musica de Zaragoza) where he taught Eduardo Viscasillas Blanque and Pablo Luna Carné. He also founded the Philharmonic Orchestra (Orquesta Filarmónica) in Zaragoza in 1890. Tena composed the himnos patrióticos and a Salve Regina to Our Lady of the Pillar.

Arturo Toscanini (; Italian: [arˈtuːro toskaˈniːni]; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career, he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–1954), and this led to his becoming a household name, especially in the United States, through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire.

Lorenzo Filiasi (25 March 1878, Naples - 30 July 1963, Rome) was an Italian composer. His opera Manuel Menendez won the Sonzongo publisher's composition competition in 1904. This led to the work's premiere at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 15 May 1904. Popularly received, the opera was mounted by opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Costanzi in Rome and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1905. His opera Fior di Neve was given its premiere at La Scala on 1 April 1911 and his opera Mattutino d'Assisi premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo on 16 January 1941.

Otakar Zich (25 March 1879, Městec Králové – 9 July 1934 Ouběnice u Benešova) was a distinguished Czech composer and aesthetician.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.

Nicolae Bretan (Hungarian: Bretán Miklós; 25 March 1887 – 1 December 1968) was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor, and music critic.

Erik William Gustav Leidzén (1894–1962) was a Swedish musician, known for his compositions and arrangements for concert band and British-style Brass Bands. He was born into a Salvation Army family in Stockholm, Sweden on Easter Sunday, March 25, 1894. He took up the E-flat flugelhorn at age 6, and attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, graduating with honors in 1914. He emigrated to the United States in 1915, and continued his association with Salvation Army music there. He was also known for his association with Edwin Franko Goldman, many of whose works Leidzén transcribed or arranged. He died in New York City on December 20, 1962 shortly after suffering a stroke.

Nikolai Ivanovich Peiko (Russian: Николай Иванович Пейко; 25 March 1916, Moscow – 1 July 1995, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet composer and professor of composition.

Julia Amanda Perry (March 25, 1924 – April 24, 1979) was an American classical composer and teacher who combined European classical and neo-classical training with her African-American heritage.

Josep Soler i Sardà (25 March 1935 – 9 October 2022) was a Catalonian/Spanish composer, writer, music theorist, and one of the main Catalan members of the Generación del 51.

Jack Behrens (born 25 March 1935) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer of American birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music has been performed throughout North America and on CBC Radio and radio stations in the United States. In 1970 his orchestral work The Sound of Milo won first prize in the New Orleans Symphony contest and his choral work How Beautiful is the Night was awarded the Francis Boott Prize at Harvard University. He was married to the late Canadian pianist Sonja Peterson Behrens.

Lisa Scola Prosek (born March 25, 1958) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer and librettist. Among her compositions are two oratorios and seven operas.

Kirill Vladimirovich Pokrovsky (Kирилл Владимирович Покровский; 25 March 1962 – 1 June 2015) was a Russian composer and musician. Kirill Pokrovsky learned to play and compose music from a young age, before receiving classical training at Moscow Conservatory. Between 1985 and 1989, Pokrovsky played as a keyboardist for Soviet heavy metal music bands Aria and Master. Later he moved to Belgium and wrote his first solo album called BRUGGE.Pokrovsky had a successful career as a video game score composer. He wrote the soundtrack for the Divinity series of video games produced by Larian Studios, up until Divinity: Original Sin, which he had finished work on prior to his death.

Rubén Jiménez Urbano (Doña Mencía, 1997), known in the artistic world as Niño Rubén (in English, Child Rubén), is a Spanish bassoonist and composer specialized in flamenco music. He is the creator and the only worldwide representative of the flamenco bassoon.