# 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)