1730 in music

The year 1730 in music involved some significant events.

Events

The Beggar's Opera by John Gay is so popular that a deck of playing cards based on the characters is printed.
Antonio Vivaldi and his family arrive in Prague.
André Campra becomes Inspector General of the Paris Opera.
April 7 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his copy of the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.]

Published music

George Frideric Handel – Sonates pour un Traversiere un Violon ou Hautbois Con Basso Continuo Composées par G. F. Handel, actually a forgery by John Walsh in London—Jeanne Roger had died in 1722

Classical music

Johann Sebastian Bach
*Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
*Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 192
*Lukaspassion, BWV 246
*Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major, BWV 525
*Organ Sonata No. 3 in D minor, BWV 527
*Organ Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV 530
*Partita in E minor, BWV 830
*Violin Sonata in G major, BWV 1021
*3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-1029
*Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
*Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060
Francesco Barsanti – 9 Overtures, Op. 4
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
*6 Suites and 2 Sonatas, Op. 27
*6 Sonates en trio suivies de concertos, Op. 28
*Diverses pièces de viole avec la basse chiffrée, Op. 31
Antonio Caldara – La Passione di Gesù Cristo
François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 4
Philippe Courbois – Recueil d'airs sérieux et à boire à une et deux voix
Carl Heinrich Graun
*Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld
*Kommt her und schauet
George Frideric Handel
* Allegro in D minor, HWV 475
Leo Leonardo – 14 Toccate
Benedetto Marcello – Requiem "In the Venetian Manner"
Johan Helmich Roman – Assaggio in G minor, BeRI 314 and 320
Thomas Roseingrave – XII Solos
Georg Philipp Telemann
*Fast allgemeines Evangelisch-Musicalisches Lieder-Buch
*Matthäus-Passion, TWV 5:15
*Nouvelles sonatines
*6 Quadri a violino, flauto traversiere, viola da gamba o violoncello, e fondamento: ripartiti in 2. concerti, 2. balletti, 2. suonate, Hamburg:, TWV 43:G1, 43:D1, 43:A1, 43:g1, 43:e1, 43:h1
*Violin Concerto, TWV 51:G8
Johann Theile – Ach dass ich hören sollte
Antonio Vivaldi
* Trio Sonata in C major, RV 82
* Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 93
* Violin Concerto in D major, RV 206
* Bassoon Concerto in C major, RV 473
* Bassoon Concerto in C major, RV 477
* Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 500
* Concerto in G major, RV 575
* Fonti di pianto piangete, RV 656
* Par che tardo oltre il costume, RV 662
* Qual per ignoto calle, RV 677
Jan Dismas Zelenka
*I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore, ZWV 63
*Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, ZWV 169

Opera

Francesco Araia – Berenice
Riccardo Broschi – Idaspe
Antonio Caldara – Enone
Giovanni Battista Costanzi – L'Eupatra
Francesco Feo – Andromaca
George Frideric Handel – Partenope, HWV 27
Johann Adolf Hasse
*Arminio
*Artaserse
*Dalisa
Nicola Antonio Porpora – Mitridate
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pyrrhus
Leonardo Vinci
*Alessandro nell'Indie, premiered Jan. 2 in Rome
*Artaserse
Antonio Vivaldi – ''Argippo''

Births

February 23 – Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, composer
April 21 – Antonin Kammel, composer
May 29 – William Jackson, organist
June 14 – Antonio Sacchini, opera composer
September 7 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
December 14 – Capel Bond, organist and composer
date unknown
*Theodore Aylward Sr., organist
*Pasquale Errichelli, organist and composer
*Domenico Gallo, violinist and composer

Deaths

March 17 – Antonín Reichenauer, composer
March 22 – Benedetto Pamphili, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist
April 10 – Sébastien de Brossard, music theorist
May 27 – Leonardo Vinci, composer
June 19 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London
August 31 – Gottfried Finger, composer
October 15 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, virtuoso violinist and composer
date unknown
*William Hine, organist and composer
*Carlo Annibale Tononi, luthier
probable
*Filippo Amadei, composer
*Charles Piroye, composer