1832 in music

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

Popular music

 * "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
 * Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885)
 * Robert Eitner, musicologist (died 1905)
 * 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 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)