1732 in music

Events

• The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
• February 3 – L'Opera Comique opens in Paris
• April 11 Johann Sebastian Bach revivies his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
• Between 1732–1735 Bach makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion oratorio Seliges Erwägen des Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi TWV 5: 2 by Georg Philipp Telemann.

Classical music

• Coffee Cantata – Johann Sebastian Bach
• The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio) – Maurice Greene
• Six Sonatas for Cello – Benedetto Marcello
• Lo frate 'nnamorato: Sinfonia in D major – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
• Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta – Jan Dismas Zelenka

Opera

• Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise
• George Frideric Handel – Ezio; Sosarme
• John Frederick Lampe – Britannia
• Michel Montéclair – Jephté
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Salustia

Publications

• Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther

Births

• January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
• February 18 - Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
• March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
• May 17
  • Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer (died 1781)
  • Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
• June 7 - Giuseppe Demachi, composer (died 1791)
• June 21 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1795)
• October 6 – John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)

Deaths

• January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
• February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
• March 5 - Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
• July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
• 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)