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 (BC D 6) 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 (Amsterdam: Jeanne Roger), 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 (now attributed to Johann Melchior Molter)
 * 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 (Passion cantata)
 * Kommt her und schauet (Passion oratorio)
 * 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: [Telemann] ("Paris Quartets" Nos. 1–6), 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 (died c. 1793)
 * April 21 – Antonin Kammel, composer (died 1788)
 * May 29 – William Jackson, organist (died 1803)
 * June 14 – Antonio Sacchini, opera composer (died 1786)
 * September 7 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
 * December 14 – Capel Bond, organist and composer (died 1790)
 * date unknown
 * Theodore Aylward Sr., organist (died 1801)
 * Pasquale Errichelli, organist and composer (died 1785)
 * Domenico Gallo, violinist and composer (died c. 1768)

Deaths

 * March 17 – Antonín Reichenauer, composer (born c.1694)
 * March 22 – Benedetto Pamphili, Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist (born 1653)
 * April 10 – Sébastien de Brossard, music theorist (born 1655)
 * May 27 – Leonardo Vinci, composer (born 1690)
 * June 19 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (born 1680)
 * August 31 – Gottfried Finger, composer (born c. 1655)
 * October 15 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, virtuoso violinist and composer (born 1687)
 * date unknown
 * William Hine, organist and composer (born 1687)
 * Carlo Annibale Tononi, luthier (born 1675)
 * probable
 * Filippo Amadei, composer
 * Charles Piroye, composer (born c.1670)