1832 in music

Events

• Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
• August 14 – Première of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture is held in London.
• September – Paris's Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse.
• 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.^[1]

Classical Music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
• Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
• Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
• Fromental Halévy – La tentation

Popular music

• "Rock of Ages" (hymn) by Augustus Montague Toplady & Thomas Hastings
• "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

Publications

• Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music

Births

• January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
• February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer (d. 1879)
• June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (d. 1918)
• July 17 – August Söderman, composer (d. 1876)
• August 3 – Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (d. 1914)
• September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer (d. 1896)
• September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer (d. 1915)
• October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer (d. 1884)
• October 22
  • Leopold Damrosch, conductor (d. 1885)
  • August Labitzky, composer and kappelmeister (d. 1903)
• October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (d. 1918)
• date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (d. 1882)

Deaths

• March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
• March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 55
• May 15 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, conductor, composer and music teacher, 73
• May 26 – François-Louis Perne, composer and musicologist, 59
• June 10 – Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García, opera singer, 57
• September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
• November 3 - Pietro Generali, composer, 59
• 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)

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