# 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)