1732 in music

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1732.

EventsEdit

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 Template: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<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">Template:Cite book</ref>
December 7 – The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London<ref name="Pocket On This Day">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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 Template: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

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

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