1732 in music

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–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. 2
 * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
 * 5 Sonates en trio suivies d'un concerto, Op. 37
 * 2 Sérénades en trois parties, Op. 39
 * 6 Sonates suivies d'un nombre de pièces, Op. 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. 2 (Paris)
 * Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concertos, Opp. 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 [sic] than the former Edition")
 * Pietro Locatelli – 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
 * Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Sonatas for two flutes, Op. 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 .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. 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)