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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 (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
  • <!--February 11-->Peter Arnold Heise, composer (d. 1879)
  • <!--February 11-->Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, composer (d. 1913)
  • February 13 - Cyrille Rose, clarinetist and teacher (d. 1902)
  • April 13 – Eduard Lassen, conductor and composer (d. 1904)
  • May 18 – Karl Goldmark, composer (d. 1915)
  • June 22 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, teacher, and composer (d. 1915)
  • July 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (d.1894)
  • 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)
  • December 23 – Charlotte Alington Barnard ('Claribel'), English ballad composer (d. 1869)

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)

References