1732 in music
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[edit] Events
- The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
- February 3 - L'Opera Comique opens in Paris
[edit] 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
[edit] Opera
- George Frideric Handel - Ezio; Sosarme
- John Frederick Lampe - Britannia
- Michel Montéclair - Jephté
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La Salustia
[edit] Births
- January 2 - František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
- January 18 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
- February 5 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
- February 25 - Robert Hudson (composer)
- March 31 - Joseph Haydn (died 1809)
- May 17 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
- June 21 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
- September 1 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner and Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (died 1781), composers
- October 6 - John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)
- November 27 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer
- December 13 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - Louis Marchand (born 1669)
- March 5 - Joseph-François Salomon, composer
- April 5 - Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
- April 23 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer
- May 13 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
- July 20 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
- September 17 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
- December 4 - John Gay (born 1685)
- December 14 - Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
- December 18 - Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer
- date unknown - Nicolini, castrato singer (born c.1673)
