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 – The Teatro Filarmonico opens in Verona with a performance of Vivaldi's La Fida Ninfa
- February 3 – The Opéra-Comique opens in Paris[citation needed]
- 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[1]
- December 7 – The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London[2]
- 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)
Classical music
- Coffee Cantata – Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio) – Maurice Greene
- Six Sonatas for Cello – Benedetto Marcello
- Lo frate 'nnamorato: Sinfonia in D major – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta – Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Acis and Galatea (pastoral opera) – George Frederic Handel
Opera
- Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise
- George Frideric Handel – Ezio; Sosarme
- John Frederick Lampe – Britannia
- Michel Montéclair – Jephté
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Salustia
Publications
- Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther
Births
- January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
- February 18 - Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
- March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
- May 17 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
- June 7 - 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)
Deaths
- January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
- February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
- March 5 - Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
- July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
- 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)
References
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