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"
 * 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
 * Peter Arnold Heise, composer (d. 1879)
 * 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)