1832 in music

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
• 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 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
• *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
• Fromental Halévy – La tentation
• Albert Lortzing – Der Pole und sein Kind (premiered October 11 in Osnabrück

Popular music

• "The Bloom is on the Rye " 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
• January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer
• January 27 – Lewis Carroll, lyricist
• January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer
• February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer
• February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• March 1 – Friedrich Grützmacher, cellist
• March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone
• March 7 – William Busnach, librettist
• April 14 – Wilhelm Busch, lyricist
• April 15 – Gabriel Baille, composer
• June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer
• July 2 – Félix Henri Duquesnel, lyricist
• June 15 – Sigmund Schlesinger, composer
• July 17 – August Söderman, composer
• July 24 – Johann Lauterbach, composer
• *Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher
• August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist
• August 15 – Ernst Naumann, organist and composer
• September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer
• September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor
• September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer
• October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
• October 7 – Charles Crozat Converse, composer
• October 14 – Heinrich Armin Rattermann, lyricist and translator
• October 22
• *Leopold Damrosch, conductor
• *Robert Eitner, musicologist
• *August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister
• October 25 – Julián Arcas, composer
• October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer
• November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano
• November 11 – Paolo Giorza, composer
• November 12 – John Troutbeck, musicologist
• December 24 – Manuel Del Palacio, lyricist
• date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar

Deaths

• February 15 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
• March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
• March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 45
• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lyricist and librettist
• 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
• July 28 – Joseph Schreyvogel, music publisher
• August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19
• August 31 – Auguste Kreutzer, composer
• September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
• September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, lyricist
• November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59
• November 15 – Konrad von Schmidt-Phiseldeck, lyricist
• 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
• *Isabelle de Montolieu, lyricist and translator