1730 in music

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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.]

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"

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)

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)

↑ Anthony, James R., "Campra, André" in Sadie (1992) 1: 707.
↑ Pitou (1983) 1: 191.
↑ Robinson, Michael F., "Broschi [Brosca], Riccardo" in Sadie (1992) 1: 615.
↑ Hicks, Anthony, "Handel [Händel, Hendel], George Frideric" in Sadie (1992) 2: 632.
↑ Markstrom, Kurt, "Vinci, Leonardo" in Sadie (1992) 4: 1016.

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.