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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1732.

Events

  • January 6 – The Teatro Filarmonico opens in Verona with a performance of Vivaldi's La Fida Ninfa
  • February 3 – The Opéra-Comique opens in Paris
  • April 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
  • April&ndash;May – First performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's Esther as an oratorio
  • December 7 – The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
  • Between 1732 and 1735 – Bach gives the Leipzig première of Georg Philipp Telemann's Passion oratorio Seliges Erwägen des Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi (TWV 5:2)
  • Michel Corrette begins producing his 25 Concertos Comiques, released until 1773.

Published music

  • Michel Blavet – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;2
  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  • 5 Sonates en trio suivies d'un concerto, Op.&nbsp;37
  • 2 Sérénades en trois parties, Op.&nbsp;39
  • 6 Sonates suivies d'un nombre de pièces, Op.&nbsp;40
  • Esprit Philippe Chédeville – Recueils de vaudevilles, menuets, contredanses et autres airs choisis pour la musette (Paris)
  • Philibert Delavigne – Sonates pour la Musette, Vielle, Flute-a-bec, Traversiere, Hautbois etc. avec la Basse (6 Sonatas), Op.&nbsp;2 (Paris)
  • Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concertos, Opp.&nbsp;3 and 4
  • George Frideric Handel – Solos for a German Flute a Hoboy or Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Bass Violin Compos'd by Mr. Handel (London: John Walsh) (second edition: "Note: This is more Corect than the former Edition")
  • Pietro Locatelli – 12 Flute Sonatas, Op.&nbsp;2
  • Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Sonatas for two flutes, Op.&nbsp;2
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 36 Fantaisies pour le clavessin, TWV 33:1-36
  • Continuation des Sonates Méthodiques, TWV 41

Classical music

  • Giovanni Bononcini – 12 Trio Sonatas
  • Antonio Caldara
  • La morte d'Abel
  • Sedecia
  • Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – 18 Cantatas, D-Dl Mus.3037-K-1
  • Lodovico Giustini – 12 Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte, Op&nbsp;.1
  • Christoph Graupner
  • Trio Sonata in D minor, GWV 207
  • Flute Concerto in D major, GWV 311
  • Maurice Greene – The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio)
  • George Frederic Handel
  • Acis and Galatea (revised)
  • Esther, HWV 50b
  • Keyboard Sonata in G major, HWV 579
  • Benedetto Marcello – Six Sonatas for Cello
  • Giovanni Batisti Pergolesi – Stabat Mater, P.&nbsp;77
  • Nicola Antonio Porpora – Il martirio di S. Giovanni Nepomuceno

Opera

  • Tomaso Albinoni – Ardelinda
  • Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise
  • Antonio Caldara – Adriano in Siria
  • Geminiano Giacomelli – Alessandro Severo
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Ezio
  • Sosarme
  • Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Il Demetrio
  • Euristero
  • Issipile
  • John Frederick Lampe – Britannia
  • Leo Leonardo – Demetrio
  • Michel Montéclair – Jephté
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • Lo frate 'nnamorato
  • La Salustia
  • Nicola Antonio Porpora – Germanico in Germania
  • Georg Reutter – Alessandro il Grande
  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Memet
  • Giuseppe Sellitto – Nitocri
  • Antonio Vivaldi – La fida ninfa

Publications

  • Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther
  • Dissertation sur les différentes méthodes d'accompagnement by Jean-Phillipe Rameau
  • Essai sur le bon goût en musique – Nicolas Racot de Grandval

Births

  • January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
  • January 24 – Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
  • February 18 – Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
  • February 19 – Richard Cumberland, librettist (died 1811)
  • February 21 – William Falconer, poet (died 1769)
  • March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
  • May 17 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
  • June 7
  • Nicolas-Médard Audinot, librettist and actor (died 1801)
  • Giuseppe Demachi, composer (died 1791)
  • June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1795)
  • September 1 – Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer (died 1781)
  • October 6 – John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)
  • Date unknown – Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, composer (died 1811)

Deaths

  • January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
  • February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
  • March – Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
  • July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
  • November 15 – Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti, librettist (born 1653)
  • December 4 – John Gay, writer of musical theatre (born 1685)
  • December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer (born 1652)
  • date unknown – Pier Francesco Tosi, castrato singer (born c.1653)

References