1830 in music

• 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 • 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) ==References==