1832 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1832.

Events

• Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
• May 12 - Première of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.
• August 14 – Première of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]

Classical Music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
• Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
• Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore
• Gaetano Donizetti – Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
• Fromental Halévy – La tentation

Popular music

• "Rock of Ages" (hymn) by Augustus Montague Toplady & Thomas Hastings
• "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

Publications

• Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music

Births

• January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer (died 1916)
• January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer (died 1902)
• February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer (died 1879)
• February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (died 1890)
• March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (died 1906)
• June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (died 1918)
• July 17 – August Söderman, composer (died 1876)
• August 3 – Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (died 1914)
• August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist (died 1926)
• September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer (died 1896)
• September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor (died 1889)
• September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer (died 1915)
• October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer (died 1884)
• October 22
  • Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885)
  • August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister (died 1903)
• October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (died 1918)
• November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano (died 1912)
• date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (died 1882)

Deaths

• March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
• March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 55
• 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
• August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19
• September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
• November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59
• 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 (b. 1784)

References