1830 in music

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
• *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"
• 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
• 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
• 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