Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (born 1912)

Igor Borisovich Markevitch was a Russian composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 299 days remain until the end of the year.