1830 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1830.

Events

• October – Maria Malibran, Margarethe Stockhausen and Charles de Bériot tour the British Midlands.
• November 2 – Frédéric Chopin, aged twenty, leaves Warsaw for Austria.
• Felix Mendelssohn arrives in Italy.
• 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 – Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)
• Frédéric Chopin – Revolutionary Étude
• 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
• Robert Schumann - Variations on the name "Abegg"

Opera

• Daniel Auber – Fra Diavolo first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe.
• Vincenzo Bellini – La Capuleti e i Montecchi (Venice)
• 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 (d. 1889)
• February 11
  • Peter Arnold Heise, composer (d. 1879)
  • Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, composer (d. 1913)
• April 13 – Eduard Lassen, conductor and composer (d. 1904)
• May 18 – Karl Goldmark, composer (d. 1915)
• June 22 – Theodor Leschetizky
• July 31 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer and teacher (d. 1892)
• August 13 – Gustav Lange, German composer (d. 1889)
• September 25 – Karl Klindworth, German composer, pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher (d. 1916)
• November 27 – Harrison Millard, American composer (d.1895)
• 1738 – Ignaz Dorn, composer

Deaths

• January 19 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer (b. 1773)
• February 17 – Marcos Portugal, composer (b. 1762)
• March 2 – Ignaz Schuppanzigh, violinist (b. 1776)
• April 18 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (b. 1767)
• November 25 – Pierre Rode, violinist and composer (b. 1774)
• November 29 – Charles Simon Catel, composer (b. 1773)