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This article is about music-related events in 1832.

Events

  • Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
  • February 26 – Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
  • April 20 – Franz Liszt attends a charity concert for the Parisian cholera epidemic given by Niccolò Paganini. He vows to become the 'Paganini of the Piano'.
  • May 14 – Première of Felix Mendelssohn's overture The Hebrides is held in London.
  • September – Paris's Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse.
  • November 22 – Baritone Manuel García marries operatic soprano Cécile Eugénie Mayer.
  • Changes to American Army regulations make bandsmen regular soldiers, required to serve in battle if needed, establishes a position for bandmasters, and limits the size of regimental bands.
  • First Publication of "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)"

Classical music

  • Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
  • William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1
  • Hector Berlioz – Lélio, Cantata, premiered December 9 in Paris
  • Frederic Chopin
  • 5 Mazurkas Op. 7
  • Mazurka in B-flat major 'Wołowska', B.73
  • 3 Nocturnes Op. 9
  • Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Quintet No.3
  • Adolf Friedrich Hesse – Fantasie für die Orgel zu 4 Händen, Op.35
  • Friedrich Kuhlau
  • La clochette, Op. 121
  • Allegro pathetique for Piano 4-hands, Op. 123
  • Adagio and Rondo for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 124
  • Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
  • Ignaz Moscheles
  • Piano Concerto No.5, Op.87
  • Grand septuor, Op.88
  • Ivan Padovec – Variations, Op.4 (based on a Schubert waltz)
  • Ferdinand Ries
  • Grande ouverture et marche triomphale, Op.172
  • Piano Concerto No.9, Op.177
  • Clara Schumann – Caprices en forme de valses, Op. 2
  • Robert Schumann - Toccata in C, Op. 7
  • Bedřich Smetana – Galop (Kvapík) in D major, JB 2:1
  • Johann Strauss, Sr.
  • Cotillons, Op. 50
  • Bajaderen-Walzer, Op. 53
  • Contratänze, Op. 54
  • Alexandra-Walzer, Op. 56
  • Sigismond Thalberg – 6 Deutsche Lieder, Op. 8
  • Richard Wagner
  • Polonaise in D major, WWV 23
  • 2 Entreactes tragiques, WWV 25
  • Concert Overture No.2 in C major, WWV 27 (dated March 3-17)
  • Symphony in C, WWV 29

Opera

  • Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le Serment, premiered October 1 in Paris
  • Gaetano Donizetti
  • L'elisir d'amore, May 12, Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.
  • Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
  • Fromental Halévy – La tentation
  • Albert Lortzing – Der Pole und sein Kind (premiered October 11 in Osnabrück
  • "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

Publications

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Published posthumously: Studien im Generalbass, Contrapunkt und in der Compositionslehre
  • Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music
  • Nicola Vaccai – Metodo pratico de canto

Births

  • January 1 – Aloys Kunc, pedagogue and composer (died 1895)
  • January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer (died 1916)
  • January 27 – Lewis Carroll, lyricist (died 1898)
  • January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer (died 1902)
  • February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer (died 1879)
  • February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (died 1890)
  • March 1 – Friedrich Grützmacher, cellist (died 1903)
  • March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (died 1906)
  • March 7 – William Busnach, librettist (died 1907)
  • April 14 – Wilhelm Busch, lyricist (died 1908)
  • April 15 – Gabriel Baille, composer (died 1909)
  • June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (died 1918)
  • July 2 – Félix Henri Duquesnel, lyricist (died 1915)
  • June 15 – Sigmund Schlesinger, composer (died 1918)
  • July 17 – August Söderman, composer (died 1876)
  • July 24 – Johann Lauterbach, composer (died
  • August 3
  • Étienne Rey, composer (died 1923)
  • Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (died 1914)
  • August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist (died 1926)
  • August 15 – Ernst Naumann, organist and composer (died 1910)
  • September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer (died 1896)
  • September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor (died 1889)
  • September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer (died 1915)
  • October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer (died 1884)
  • October 7 – Charles Crozat Converse, composer (died 1918)
  • October 14 – Heinrich Armin Rattermann, lyricist and translator (died 1923)
  • October 22
  • <!--October 22-->Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885)
  • Robert Eitner, musicologist (died 1905)
  • <!--October 22-->August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister (died 1903)
  • October 25 – Julián Arcas, composer (died 1882)
  • October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (died 1918)
  • November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano (died 1912)
  • November 3 – Henry Behning, Sr., piano maker (died 1905)
  • November 11 – Paolo Giorza, composer (died 1914)
  • November 12 – John Troutbeck, musicologist (died 1899)
  • December 24 – Manuel Del Palacio, lyricist (died 1906)
  • date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (died 1882)

Deaths

  • February 15 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer (born 1746)
  • March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
  • March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 45 (born 1786)
  • March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lyricist and librettist (born 1749)
  • March 23 – Wilhelm Würfel, pianist, conductor and composer, 41
  • May 15 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, conductor, composer and music teacher, 73
  • May 26 – François-Louis Perne, composer and musicologist, 59
  • June 10 – Manuel García, opera singer, 57
  • July 25 – Sébastien Demar, composer (born 1763)
  • July 28 – Joseph Schreyvogel, music publisher (born 1768)
  • August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19
  • August 31 – Auguste Kreutzer, composer (born 1778)
  • September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
  • September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, lyricist (born 1771)
  • November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59
  • November 15 – Konrad von Schmidt-Phiseldeck, lyricist (born 1770)
  • December 12 – Andrea Nozzari, operatic tenor, 57
  • December 22 – Ishmail Spicer, composer, 72
  • December 31 – Adelaide Malanotte, operatic contralto, 47
  • date unknown
  • Philip Antony Corri, composer (b. 1784)
  • Isabelle de Montolieu, lyricist and translator (born 1751)

References