1732 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1732.
Events
- January 6 â The Teatro Filarmonico opens in Verona with a performance of Vivaldi's La Fida Ninfa
- February 3 â The Opéra-Comique opens in Paris[citation needed]
- April 11 â Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
- AprilâMay â First performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's Esther as an oratorio[1]
- December 7 â The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London[2]
- Between 1732 and 1735 â 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.[3]
Published music
- Michel Blavet â 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 â Recueils de vaudevilles, menuets, contredanses et autres airs choisis pour la musette (Paris)
- Philibert Delavigne â Sonates pour la Musette, Vielle, Flute-a-bec, Traversiere, Hautbois etc. avec la Basse (6 Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris)
- Francesco Geminiani â 6 Concertos, Opp. 3 and 4
- George Frideric Handel â 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 â 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
- Johann Joachim Quantz â 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 â 12 Trio Sonatas
- Antonio Caldara
- La morte d'Abel
- Sedecia
- Giovanni Battista Ferrandini â 18 Cantatas, D-Dl Mus.3037-K-1
- Lodovico Giustini â 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 â 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 â Six Sonatas for Cello
- Giovanni Batisti Pergolesi â Stabat Mater, P. 77
- Nicola Antonio Porpora â Il martirio di S. Giovanni Nepomuceno
Opera
- Tomaso Albinoni â Ardelinda
- Giuseppe Bonno â Nigella e Nise
- Antonio Caldara â Adriano in Siria
- Geminiano Giacomelli â Alessandro Severo
- George Frideric Handel
- Johann Adolf Hasse
- Il Demetrio
- Euristero
- Issipile
- John Frederick Lampe â Britannia
- Leo Leonardo â Demetrio
- Michel Montéclair â Jephté
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Lo frate 'nnamorato
- La Salustia
- Nicola Antonio Porpora â Germanico in Germania
- Georg Reutter â Alessandro il Grande
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini â Memet
- Giuseppe Sellitto â Nitocri
- Antonio Vivaldi â 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 â Nicolas Racot de Grandval
Births
- January 2 â FrantiÅ¡ek Brixi, composer (died 1771)
- January 24 â Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- February 18 â Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
- February 19 â Richard Cumberland, librettist (died 1811)
- February 21 â William Falconer, poet (died 1769)
- March 31 â Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
- May 17 â Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
- June 7
- Nicolas-Médard Audinot, librettist and actor (died 1801)
- Giuseppe Demachi, composer (died 1791)
- June 21 â Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1795)
- September 1 â Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer (died 1781)
- October 6 â John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)
- Date unknown â Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, composer (died 1811)
Deaths
- January 1 â Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
- February 17 â Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
- March â Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
- July 20 â Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
- November 15 â Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti, librettist (born 1653)
- December 4 â John Gay, writer of musical theatre (born 1685)
- December 14 â Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer (born 1652)
- date unknown â Pier Francesco Tosi, castrato singer (born c.1653)