1830 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1830.
Events
- August 25 – A performance of Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici at La Monnaie in Brussels helps trigger the Belgian Revolution.
- October
- *Maria Malibran, Margarethe Stockhausen and Charles de Bériot tour the English Midlands.
- *Felix Mendelssohn arrives in Italy.
- November 2 – Frédéric Chopin, aged twenty, leaves Warsaw for Austria.
- December 5 – Franz Liszt attends the first performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. It inspires him to search for new expressive effects on the piano.
- In Britain:
- *The Royal Academy of Music is granted a charter by King George IV of the United Kingdom.
- *Charles Lucas is appointed official composer and cellist to Queen Adelaide.
Classical music
- Frédéric Chopin
- *4 Mazurkas Op. 6
- *Piano Concerto No. 1
- *Revolutionary Étude, Op. 10, No. 12
- George Onslow – Symphony No. 1 in A Major
- Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
- Felix Mendelssohn
- *Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, "Reformation"
- *Rondo capriccioso
- Robert Schumann – Variations on the name "Abegg"
Opera
- Daniel Auber – Fra Diavolo first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe.
- Vincenzo Bellini – I Capuleti e i Montecchi
- Gaetano Donizetti – Anna Bolena first performed in Milan. Libretto by Felice Romani.
- Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy – Attendre et courir
- Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – ''L'Auberge d'Auray''
Births
- January 23 – Ivan Larionov, Russian composer
- February 11
- *Peter Arnold Heise, composer
- *Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, composer
- February 13 - Cyrille Rose, clarinetist and teacher
- April 13 – Eduard Lassen, conductor and composer
- May 18 – Karl Goldmark, composer
- June 22 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, teacher, and composer
- July 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist
- July 31 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer and teacher
- August 13 – Gustav Lange, German composer
- September 25 – Karl Klindworth, German composer, pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher
- November 27 – Harrison Millard, American composer
- December 23 – Charlotte Alington Barnard, English ballad composer
Deaths
- January 19 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
- February 17 – Marcos Portugal, composer
- March 2 – Ignaz Schuppanzigh, violinist
- April 18 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer
- November 25 – Pierre Rode, violinist and composer
- November 29 – Charles Simon Catel, composer