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.^[1][2]
• April 7 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his copy of the anonymous St Luke Passion BWV 246 (BC D 6) at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.]

Classical music

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
• Antonio Caldara – La Passione di Gesù Cristo
• François Couperin – Pièces de clavecin, book 4
• Carl Heinrich Graun
  • Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld (Passion cantata)
  • Kommt her und schauet (Passion oratorio)
• Benedetto Marcello – Requiem "In the Venetian Manner"

Opera

• Riccardo Broschi – Idaspe^[3]
• George Frideric Handel – Ormisda^[4]
• Leonardo Vinci – Artaserse^[5]
• Nicola Antonio Porpora – Mitridate
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Arminio
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi – L'Eupatra
• Francesco Feo – Andromaca
• Francesco Araia – Berenice
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Dalisa
• Antonio Caldara – Enone
• Antonio Vivaldi – Argippo
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Artaserse

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)
• December 14 – Capel Bond, organist and composer (died 1790)
• date unknown
  • Pasquale Errichelli, organist and composer (died 1785)
  • Domenico Gallo, violinist and composer (died c. 1768)

Deaths

• 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)

References

Sources

• Pitou, Spire (1983). The Paris Opéra: an encyclopedia of operas, ballets, composers, and performers (3 volumes). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-686-46036-7.
• Sadie, Stanley, editor (1992). The new Grove dictionary of opera (4 volumes). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.